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Three men smoking and drinking in a tavern: one man, when drunk, tends to abuse Irish people; the second, who is Irish, tends to attack anyone abusing Irish people; and the third man looks on. Coloured lithograph.
Date: [approximately 1840?]Reference: 26908i
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A veterinary surgeon and a blacksmith attacking dandies on velocipedes, in an attempt to preserve the use of horses as a means of transport, and therefore securing their own trades. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1819.
Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830.Date: 1819Reference: 11811i
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A clergyman conducting a chaotic christening. Colour mezzotint by J. Sympson, 173-, after W. Hogarth.
William HogarthDate: [between 1730 and 1739?]Reference: 16957i
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A foppish fumigator holding a print of a birthing chair (?). Etching, 1772.
Date: Pubd. according to Act. 12 August 1772Reference: 10947i
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Oscar Wilde prefigured : queer fashioning and British caricature, 1750-1900 / Dominic Janes.
Janes, DominicDate: 2016
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A fashionable man and woman accompanied by a maid-servant and a boy servant; the woman, who wears an elaborately decorated pyramid wig, carries a dog under her right arm and looks admiringly at her male companion. Engraving, c. 1772.
Reference: 31795i
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Six fashionable young men after a drinking session, all with girls in their arms. Engraving, c. 1796.
Date: 7 March 1796Reference: 26872i
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Three drunken men carousing round a kitchen table. Etching, c. 1836, after H. K. Browne [Phiz].
Hablot Knight BrowneDate: [1836]Reference: 26895i
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Lord Ogleby with Canton (a valet) and Brush in Colman and Garrick's The clandestine marriage. Engraving by H. Meyer, 1821, after G. Clint.
George ClintDate: 16 March 1821Reference: 22007i
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Illustration to a proverb: the philandering Babu and the musk rat at a party. Watercolour drawing, c. 1870.
Date: 1870Reference: 26861i
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An elaborately dressed travelling tooth-drawer extracting a tooth in a carriage from a patient. Drypoint.
Reference: 16763i
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A skeleton wearing fashionable clothes. Lithograph by L. Crusius, 1898.
Crusius, L., active 1898-1900.Date: 1898Reference: 37418i
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A foppish obstetrician with forceps in his pocket. Etching, 1772.
Date: Publish'd according to Act. 14 November 1772Reference: 10946i
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The young foppish politician Charles James Fox having his hair dressed; represented by a fox with pages from the Magna Charta as curl-papers. Engraving, 1771.
Date: published as the Act directs June 9 1771Reference: 12167i
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A 'dentiste' extracting the tooth of a large well dressed gentleman. Coloured mezzotint by J. Wilson after himself, 1773.
Wilson, James, 1735-1786.Date: 15 April 1773Reference: 16522i
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A fashionable man takes his hat off while strolling; his hairdresser assists him by supporting the weight of his large wig. Coloured engraving by J. Caldwell after M.V. Brandoin.
Michel-Vincent BrandoinReference: 31879i
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A young lady recommending a specific doctor to her aunt, who rejects her idea because of his outrageous dress-sense. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier, 1892.
George du MaurierDate: 1892Reference: 14296i
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A fashionably-dressed dandy in a spotted suit with an upraised tie walking along a pavement. Etching by M. Darly, ca. 1772.
Matthew DarlyDate: [1772?]Reference: 579671i
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Town fops including L. Skeffington, J. Penn and Lord Kirkcudbright, feigning fashionable wounds after the return of the troops from Holland. Coloured etching after J. Cawse, 1799.
John CawseDate: 18 November 1799Reference: 10768i
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Mr. Lambkin dressing up in front of a mirror. Lithograph by G. Cruikshank.
George CruikshankReference: 12122i
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Englishmen smoking in a city street, thereby causing a nuisance to women. Etching.
Date: [between 1850 and 1859?]Reference: 140i
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The gouty King George IV relaxing before nine portraits chronicling his past extravagant styles of dress; representing the King's attempt to withdraw from public ridicule. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1824.
William HeathDate: 15 March 1824Reference: 12219i
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Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich: the interior of the Painted Hall, a fancy fair in progress. Wood engraving.
Date: [1843?]Reference: 29953i
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A grossly obese man supporting his stomach in a wheelbarrow, a young fop looks on. Etching by S. Ireland, 178-, after J.H. Mortimer.
John Hamilton MortimerDate: 1780-1789Reference: 11055i
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Three dandies smoking and drinking coffee. Lithograph after H. Heath, c. 1840.
Henry HeathDate: 1840Reference: 24884i