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Coloured etching. Museum's description : "An English dandy in Paris (Moore's Bob Fudge whom the artist has confused with his father, Phil) dresses for the evening, staring complacently at his reflection in the mirror of a table (right) with open side-flaps and a sunk basin, while he puts on one of several rings. The caricature is less broad than in other dandy satires; he has a small moustache (see No. 13029) and wears long tight pantaloons and pumps. An open wardrobe is against the wall surmounted by a bust of 'Adonis'; stays are on the floor, a bidet is in the foreground (left), its tap dripping on to papers: bulky bills, headed 'Stay Mak[er]'; 'P. Fudge Esqr to Staytape'; 'P. Fudge Esqr to Pump' [Maker]; 'P Fudge Esqr for Perfumery'; a packet of 'Chicken Gloves', with a torn 'Essay on Man by A. Po[pe]'. On the wall hangs a pistol labelled 'not loaded'. Two top-hats, a crescent-shaped opera-hat, and a fringed scarf hang on a rail, with shoes and top-boot suspended below. The dressing-table is covered with stoppered bottles: 'Bergamot'; 'Lav[ender Water], Circassian Bloom'; 'Creme de Rose'; 'Eau de Ninon'; with a box of 'Patches', &c. Below the design: 'A lad who goes into the world dick like me,/Should have his neck tied up, you know, there's no doubt of it;/Almost as tight as some lads who go out of it./Whith Whiskers well oil'd, and boots that hold up/The mirror to nature;—so bright you could sup/Off the leather like china; with coat, too that draws on the tailor, who suffers a martyr's applause!—/With head bridled up, like a four in hand leader, And stays—devils in them.—too tight for a feeder,/I strut to the Old caff [Café] Hardy.—