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C1818
The Hen-pecked Dandy
Artist:
The dandy stands by the dressing-table making a gesture of rejection towards his wife (left). He is lacing a pair of stays over his shirt and puffed-out breeches. His waist is very small, his bare legs emaciated, his mouth a … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
The Hen-pecked Dandy
Date:
C1818
Artist:
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Copper engraving with original hand colouring
Image Size:
335mm
x 235mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1818
Description:
The dandy stands by the dressing-table making a gesture of rejection towards his wife (left). He is lacing a pair of stays over his shirt and puffed-out breeches. His waist is very small, his bare legs emaciated, his mouth a small irregular aperture; a set of false teeth is on the dressing-table. She is plump and comely, and holds out her arms to him; she wears frilled drawers reaching below the calf, and a long pad across her shoulders to give her short-waisted dress the fashionable line. A large fire is burning; on it is an iron; kettle and coffee-pot are on the hob. Before it on a towel-rail hang stockings and other garments; top-boots are warming by the fender. A mirror reflects the back of the dandy’s head, with its grotesque collar. A high-shouldered coat hangs on a T-shaped stand. On a shelf above the wash-stand a pair of short yellow gloves are drying on stands. Ref: BM
Left caption: The Demon of Fashion Sir Fopling bewitches The reason his Lady betrays.
Right caption: For as she is resolved upon wearing the Breeches In revenge he has taken the Stays.
The practice of dandyism first appeared in the revolutionary 1790s, both in London and in Paris. Charles Baudelaire defined the dandy: “Contrary to what a lot of thoughtless people seem to believe, dandyism is not even an excessive delight in clothes and material elegance. For the perfect dandy, these things are no more than the symbol of the aristocratic superiority of his mind.”
A rare Irish issued satirical cartoon by the Dublin publisher William McCleary based on Isaac Robert Cruikshank’s (1789-1859) cartoon but reversed.
William McCleary (1799 - 1820)
McCleary was one of the major Irish publishers of mainly pirated copies of London satirical prints. He began trading from premises located at 31 Lower Ormond Quay in 1791 and by 1798 his business had become sufficiently successful to allow him to move to a larger shop located on Nassau Street. McCleary’s decision in copying the caricatures of his rival and fellow Dubliner J. Sidebotham and undercutting the prices of the pirated versions of Sidebotham's caricatures. resulted into a long lasting feud between the two publishers. His trading addresses: 31 & later 18 Lower Ormond Quay (1791-1798) 21 Nassau Street, Dublin (1799, 1820) 32 Nassau Street, Dublin (1808) 39 Nassau Street, Dublin (1820)
