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Robert Cruikshank, designer

Dandies Having a Treat, 1818

Description

Maker

  • Robert Cruikshank, 1789-1856, English, designer
  • Thomas Tegg, publisher

Culture

English

Title

Dandies Having a Treat

Year

1818

Medium

Etching on wove paper, hand-colored

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • hand coloring,
  • hand colored

Supports

  • medium weight cream wove paper

Dimensions

Plate: 64.5 x 89.5 cm (25 3/8 x 35 1/4 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Original--Recto:numbered in pencil in UR:46 Verso:inscribed in pencil in LL:I.R. Cruikshank inv. & fecit; titled in LC:DANDIES HAVING A TREAT; inscribed in LR:Pubd jan.1 1818 T Tegg III Cheapside

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Museum Works of Art Fund

Object Number

46.058

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Artist, Rebel, Dandy

April 26 - August 18, 2013

Robert Cruikshank's hand-colored etchings are ruthless, comical jabs at the dandy "species." This grouping shows the dandy out and about in the city-at the tea shop, lounging in the opera box, on promenade-and always the butt of a joke. Cruikshank draws attention to the exaggerated components of fashionable menswear of the late 1810s, including corseted waists so severely constricted that one opera attendee has suffered a fainting fit, a malady typically perceived as feminine. With these caricatures, the Cruikshanks successfully imprinted on the popular imagination the image of the dandy as not only effete, but also one so devoted to appearance as to be devoid of brain and character. While to modern eyes these caricatures might suggest a prejudiced connection between dandyism, effeminacy, and homosexuality, such conflations were not made until after the criminal trial of Oscar Wilde, more than 70 years later.

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