[Rarebooks] fa: CHARLES WILLIAMS - DANDIES SANS SOUCI 1819 - Hand-Colored Etching

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Charles Williams: Dandies Sans Souci. London: Pub'd by J. W. Fores no. 50 Piccadilly, [c. 1819]. Hand-colored etching; 278 x 217 mm (11 x 8 1/2 in.). Some very light soiling, light creasing and a short closed tear to the bottom margin.

A play on the pun, "Dandies sans six sous", satirizing the poor but pretentious dandy. "Two dandies, fast asleep in upright straw-bottomed chairs, and with careworn frowns, are being robbed by two courtesans in a poorly furnished room, where the men's hats and gloves lie on a sofa (left), together with a woman's huge bonnet. One sleeps with legs on the table; a woman hands his bunch of seals (attached to a heart-shaped pin-cushion) to a man who stands in the doorway. She says: 'Here is the tick [pocket watch] however if we find nothing else.' The fellow answers: 'The Tick!! Why D—n me Bet its a pincushion and I'll bet any thing the seals are nothing better than Dutch mettal.' The other woman feels a pocket of her victim, and says: 'Curse ye dont make such a noise! I feel something like a flimsy [bank-note].' Bottles, jugs, and  glasses, with pipe and tobacco-box, are on the table and floor. A lighted candle is on the mantelshelf." (M. Dorothy George, Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum, IX, 1949). BM Satires 13448.