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A Dandy Fainting, or An Exquisite in Fits

A Dandy Fainting, or An Exquisite in Fits

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Robert Cruikshank

The dandy was a recurring figure in the satires around 1800. He is generally shown dressed in tightly fitting clothes with pinched waists betraying the wearing of stays (a kind of whalebone-stiffened girdle), gloves, and high collars. The dandies are characterized as vain and aesthetic, as here where a combination of tight stays and a fine performance has caused one of a group of their company to faint in a particularly elegant opera loge.
Artist
Robert Cruikshank
(Scottish, 1789 - 1856)
Title
A Dandy Fainting, or An Exquisite in Fits
Date
December 11, 1818
Medium
Hand-colored etching
Dimensions
9 1/4 x 12 3/4 in. Overall
Credit
Gift of Harold E. Kubly
Accession No.
55.4.3
Classification
Prints
Geography
Scotland

Related

1955, gifted by Harold E. Kubly (Madison, WI) to the University of Wisconsin-Madison; 1967, transferred to the Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • British Satire from Hogarth to Cruikshank: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 9/15/2001–11/4/2001

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