"Pt. 7."
A reissue of a print originally published by G. Humphrey, July 8, 1824, and included in Thomas McLean's edition of restrikes of Cruikshank etchings, issued in 1835 with the title: "Cruikshankiana : an assemblage of the most celebrated works of George Cruikshank ...".
McLean's imprint, which reads "Aug 1st, 1835" in other recorded copies of his reissue of Cruikshank's etching, shows visible evidence of having been altered here to read "1824", probably sometime after printing.
Library's copy trimmed with loss of plate mark.
Print shows extravagantly dressed pedestrians promenading beside (?) the Serpentine. Almost all are arm-in-arm, an exception being an ugly woman whose face is covered by a long transparent lace veil. The women walk leaning back and point their toes as if at a dancing class, while drawing up their skirts. A fashion for stripes for women's dresses and for trousers is apparent, and for patterned materials with scalloped flounces, furbelows, ribbons, and over-trimmed hats. Curled hair frames the face and rests on the shoulders. Waists are still wasp-like for both sexes. Men wear checked neck-cloths with high collars. Much play is made with eye-glasses and canes. Hessian and top-boots are corrugated, spurs are oddly absent. The women wear very flat slippers, tied at the ankle