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Dandies having a treat / I.R. Cruikshank, invt. & fecit.

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Robert Cruikshank
1789-1856

Dandies having a treat / I.R. Cruikshank, invt. & fecit.

[London] : Pub. Jan. 1st 1818 by T. Tegg 111 Cheapside, [1818]
etching, hand colored
image: 258 x 354 mm; plate mark: 250 x 347 mm; sheet: 258 x 354 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.491
Notes
Print numbered 324 at upper right.
Provenance

From the library of Gordon N. Ray.

Summary

Print shows the interior of a confectioner's shop, where a pair of dandies attired in high collars and tight coats are enjoying refreshments at the counter. At left, a group of onlookers, including two sailors and a sweep, crowd the shop's doorway and exclaim at the sight of the fantastically dressed pair: "I shold [sic] like one of them to a make a Tobacco stoper of for the use of the Horse Marines"; "I wish we had them on board the Thunder, split me"; "Twig their vaistes." One of the dandies is accompanied by a small, fashionably clipped dog who barks frantically at the group in the doorway while he stands admiring himself in a mirror across the counter and says: "Do not fatigue yourself Lion barking at those unfashionable wretches at the door. Ta, la, tal le la, how do you get on Peter my boy? I can't turn my head to look at you." His companion, who is sitting in a chair at right, replies: "I am doing well, this here Calfshead jelly suits my taste prime. I hopes you can pay, as I have parted with all my change for half a quarten of Soap for our next Vash." The young woman behind the counter is saying: "I wish the creatures would leave the Shop as the People will do some mischief I fear."

Associated names
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Ray, Gordon N. (Gordon Norton), 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Department