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Title: A double-distilled Dandy
Creator: George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British; Samuel William Fores, London, publisher
Date Created and/or Issued: 1818
Publication Information: Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA Hammer Museum
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts
Collection: Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection
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Description: A number of Cruikshank's most scathing images were of dandies: elegant and fashionably dressed, wealthy young men who lived a life of pleasure and decadence. [Helmreich, Life in London] In this print, a child retrieves a dandy's flowered handkerchief from the street, expecting but not receiving a tip.
Catalogue Raisonne: Reid 2746; Douglas 1480; British Museum 13091
Type: image
Format: Print Lithograph with hand coloring
Form/Genre: Print
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft938nb66m
1989.21.134
Subject: Caricatures; dandies

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