A 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 period
Alternative Title:
Telles choses sont
Description:
Title 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., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 35 x 24.8 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark. Formerly mounted with the original print, now housed separately: Drawings M553 no. 1., and Watermark: GR with fleur de lys and crown.
Publisher:
Publish'd April 2, 1787 by S.W. Fores at the Caricature Warehouse, No. 3 Piccadilly
