Dandy's toilette : Shaving

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Dandy's toilette : Shaving
hand-colored etching
270 x 190 mm
Peel 2109
Provenance: 
Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
Notes: 

Trimmed to image and title only.
Does not appear in George, M.D. Catalogue of political and personal satires preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum.

Summary: 

A young man is seated at a dressing table; a small amount of lather is on his face and he is shaving using a cut throat razor. He wears a tight pair of light blue trousers, pink slippers, a white shirt and a pair of pink braces. His servant stands behind him, holding a pair of stays. On the dressing table in front of the dandy is a shaving bowl, a linen cloth underneath; a shaving brush, a large jug, a bottle labelled of 'Curling Fluid' and various other labelled containers for 'Palm Soap', 'Windsor Soap' and a bottle labelled 'Renova Tor'. Beside the dressing table is a shoe rack, with two pairs of shoes; underneath this a pair of boots is hanging up while underneath them, lying discarded on the carpet are a pair of riding boots. Also on the carpet is a scroll of paper that has written on it "Fancy Ball"; underneath this lies a letter with the words "Miss Stephens" visible on it. Adjacent to this a volume containing a music score lies open on the floor, with the title "Quadrille Dances" visible, and across this lies a flute. An open trunk with a white linen shirt hanging over the edge of the trunk, a pair of black boots and a boot jack are positioned nearby. On the table next to the dandy's servant, lies a pair of spurs. On the wall behind is a framed contemporaneous satirical print entitled "A Pair of Lancers", while above this is a small shelf of books - one has the spine title 'Ovid', alongside this is a copy of "Fany [sic, Fanny] Hill", others have the spine titles "Cupid" and "Monk" while underneath this is a book entitled "Kiss of Secund". A trunk of linen lies open on the floor in the background.

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