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  • Dandies at the opera, one of them swooning, overcome with emotion. Etching by I.R. Cruikshank, 1835.
  • Dandies at the opera, one of them swooning, overcome with emotion. Coloured etching by I.R. Cruikshank, 1818.
  • Three dandies smoking and drinking coffee. Lithograph after H. Heath, c. 1840.
  • A group of dandies stand by while a lady's dog receives an enema. Coloured engraving.
  • A group of dandies stand by while a lady's dog receives an enema. Coloured engraving.
  • A veterinary surgeon and a blacksmith attacking dandies on velocipedes, in an attempt to preserve the use of horses as a means of transport, and therefore securing their own trades. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1819.
  • A fashionably-dressed dandy apothecary. Etching by M. Darly, 1772.
  • A dandy being laced into a tight corset by two servants. Coloured etching, 1819.
  • A dandy being laced into a tight corset by two servants. Coloured etching, 1819.
  • A dandy wearing a ring on each hand while smoking a cigar. Colour process print, ca. 1905.
  • A dandy wearing a ring on each hand while smoking a cigar. Colour process print, ca. 1905.
  • A bearded dandy admiring the ladies through his monocle on 'Buffers Walk' in the public gardens. Coloured wood engraving by W.H. Harrison.
  • A bearded dandy admiring the ladies through his monocle on 'Buffers Walk' in the public gardens. Coloured wood engraving by W.H. Harrison.
  • A portly, well-to-do physician leaves his house, while his wife cavorts in the window with a young dandy. Lithograph by P. Numa, c. 1832.
  • A milk maid shows her cowpoxed hand to a physician, while a farmer or surgeon offers to a dandy inoculation with cowpox that he has taken from a cow. Coloured etching, ca. 1800.
  • Phrenological propensities: philoprogenitiveness, amativeness, self-love, individuality, number; illustrated by a huge and happy family, an apothecary making advances on his maidservant, a dandy admiring his reflection, Seurat the human skeleton, Toby the learned pig. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1826, after himself.
  • Phrenological propensities: philoprogenitiveness, amativeness, self-love, individuality, number; illustrated by a huge and happy family, an apothecary making advances on his maidservant, a dandy admiring his reflection, Seurat the human skeleton, Toby the learned pig. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1826, after himself.
  • A skeleton wearing fashionable clothes. Lithograph by L. Crusius, 1898.
  • Englishmen smoking in a city street, thereby causing a nuisance to women. Etching.
  • A man in a gown is sitting on a chair in the middle of the room, preparing his dress and very elaborate hair style, with other men in the room. Coloured etching by I.W., 1772, after Captain Minshull.
  • A fashionable man takes his hat off while strolling; his hairdresser assists him by supporting the weight of his large wig. Coloured engraving by J. Caldwell after M.V. Brandoin.
  • A fashionable man and woman accompanied by a maid-servant and a boy servant; the woman, who wears an elaborately decorated pyramid wig, carries a dog under her right arm and looks admiringly at her male companion. Engraving, c. 1772.
  • A foppish fumigator holding a print of a birthing chair (?). Etching, 1772.
  • Two men in elaborate costume, one representing 1549 with a sword and chains on his shoes and the other of 1819 with a cane and spurs on his boots. Coloured etching.
  • Three drunken men carousing round a kitchen table. Etching, c. 1836, after H. K. Browne [Phiz].
  • A foppish obstetrician with forceps in his pocket. Etching, 1772.
  • Illustration to a proverb: the philandering Babu and the musk rat at a party. Watercolour drawing, c. 1870.
  • A grossly obese man supporting his stomach in a wheelbarrow, a young fop looks on. Etching by S. Ireland, 178-, after J.H. Mortimer.
  • A young lady recommending a specific doctor to her aunt, who rejects her idea because of his outrageous dress-sense. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier, 1892.
  • Roderick Random's fellow surgeon's mate approaching their new captain for the post of surgeon while docked in Jamaica; the foppish Captain Whiffle has fainted due to Morgan's appearance and odour, his entourage try to revive him with smelling salts and lavender water. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1793, after himself, after T. Smollett, c. 1750.