Title

Laceing a Dandy, published January 26, 1819. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Laceing a Dandy, published January 26, 1819. Two servants, one possibly a slave, pull on the laces of a man's corset. The hairdresser on the right is a caricature Frenchman or Italian. Men were not immune to the lure of fashion, and fashion-conscious dandies squeezed themselves into corsets in order to maintain a modishly trim figure. 'Fore Gad ye wretches you'l never get my Stays tight enough go brutes and call John James & Thomas to help you take care you don't Spoil my Breasts!!'; 'Vi don't you pull by Gad if you no pull tight my Lord will have on D[am]n big John Bull Belly';

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM23A10_149

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

18,5Mb (1,5Mb) / 7,2in x 10,0in / 2158 x 3000 (300dpi)

Keywords

Africa unusual England people black job fashion arts country body bodies art occupation continent clothes British English color humour African funny comb dress hair pulling thin location century gallery gesturing Britain profession breast silly underwear clothing print waist fashionable concept breasts vanity hairdresser corset APPAREL hand gesture stereotype slavery vain servant cartoon laces gender absurd absurdity parody exaggerated body image art gallery slave hairdressing lacing Colour laced 19th century dandy nineteenth century satire satirical servants speech bubble speech bubbles stereotyping etching caricature satire Unknown Thomas T Art Institute of Chicago art centre stays Thomas Tegg Tegg T Tegg & Son Tegg & Son Heritage Art enslaved person gender-fluid non-binary 19th-century Art Institute Chicago Prints and Drawings clothing & dress fashion & clothing implied racism racial stereotype Handcolored etching on cream wove paper