Dandy Pickpockets. Diving

Isaac Robert Cruikshank

Dandy Pickpockets. Diving

London, Thomas Tegg, Dec 2nd 1818

Etching

Original hand colouring

245 x 350 mm

Overall time attaining

£180

A scene near St. James Palace. On the corner of a street a man stands, leaning on his stick, as he looks at a Print Shop window. He points at the prints displayed  inside showing them to a ridiculously fashioned lady wearing a high bonnet to his right.

She is distracting him, while her two accomplishes are busy behind him picking his pockets.

Two of the prints in the window have titles A Dandysett in full Sail and Play thing for the Ladies.

The two thieves wear highly exagerated full  dandy attire, the first picking valuables from the victims pocket with one hand while handing them to his accomplish with the other