Dandies at the opera, one of them swooning, overcome with emotion. Etching by I.R. Cruikshank, 1835.

London (26 Haymarket) : Thos. McLean, Augt.1st. 1835.

1 print : etching ; image 24.8 x 34.4 cm

A dandy fainting or - an exquisite in fits. Scene a private opera box. I.R. Cruikshank inv. & fecit. The figure on the left says "I must draw the curtain or his screams will alarm the house. You have no fello feeling my dear fellos, pray unlace the dear loves stays, and lay him on the couch." The two figures in the middle say "I am so frighten'd I can hardly stand!" and "Mind you dont soil the dear's linnen". The right figure holds a phial of "Eau de Cologne" to the nostrils of the swooning figure and says "I dread the consequence! that last air of Signeur Nonballenas has thrown him in such raptures, we must call in Doctor ----- immediately!". The name of the doctor has been deleted on the plate, but can be read from its remains as "Clysterpipe"

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, vol. IX, London 1949, s.n. 13069 (mentioned as reissue of earlier print)

Wellcome Collection 35497i

Later reissue of a print first published in 1818: see Wellcome Library catalogue no. 12030i