After Isaac Robert Cruikshank's "Female lancers - or - a scene in St. James's Street" published January 1819 by E. Brooks, Panton Street, Haymarket, London; see BM Satires 13361. This print lettered with title "Female Lancers [.] Noodle and Doodle" with publication line inscribed in plate lower right "Publish'd by Le Petit, 20 Capel St.". Social satire depicting those promenading in their best attire, hoping to impress others with their good taste by wearing the latest, ridiculous fashions. At left two young ladies wear caps with tasselled mortar-boards and plumes (which resembled the elaborate helmets then worn by Lancer officers). The ladies walk arm-in-arm, stooping forward and carry long-handled parasols (whose ferrules terminate in spear-heads). They wear short, high-waisted dresses (that project at the back) and long frilled drawers above boots (that have a tassel at the front) and collars with high neck-frills. Both ladies wear gold earrings and one lady carries a small reticule. At right, two dandies walk towards them, arm-in-arm. They both have extremely high collars, white cravats and white shirts with ruffles. They both wear high-crowned hats; both carry narrow walking canes and wear yellow coloured leather gloves. Their black jackets are tight with long narrow tails; they wear fawn coloured wide trousers and black boots with high heels, to which large golden spurs are attached. (The characters Noodle and Doodle were courtiers in Henry Fielding’s 1731 play “The Tragedy of Tragedies, or the Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great”. In 1819, “Tom Thumb” a burletta [comic opera] based on Fielding’s’ work was performed on several occasions between 18 Oct 1819 and 15 Dec 1819 in the Adelphi Theatre, London).