Such things are : Telles choses sont that such things are we must allow, but such things never were till now. [graphic][2 April 1787]engA campanion piece to print of the same title which ridicules women's dress. This print shows four figures of dandies, one with a huge muff, one with a tall cane, all with the high waist, tight trousers, exaggerated ruffles at the neck, fashions that are all of the periodTitle etched below image.Verses below title: That such things are we must allow, But such things never were till now.Design attributed to Captain Mercer. According to Henry Angelo, a series of plates, four figures on each, was designed by Mercer, a military officer, with the title applied from Mrs. Inchbald's comedy. Cf. Angelo, H. Reminiscences of Henry Angelo, 1904, vol. 1, p. 328.Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.