BAJAZET. THIS dress was so much admired that it was thought proper to exhibit it in Plate LXI. as a specimen of splendid Oriental costume. It represents Bajazet, in the grand ballet of Tamerlane and Bajazet, performed at the Opera House, in the year 1806. Bajazet. It is beneath me to decline my fate, I stand prepared to meet thy utmost hate; FOPPERY. Plate LXII. represents Mr. Munden as Jemmy Jumps, in the "Farmer," and is inserted as a specimen of the fashionable habit which then prevailed. The dress and the character are so much dependent on each other that its costume is at present a matter of no small difficulty, and serves to show the contrast in the dress of a beau of 1790 and that of a dandy of 1821. |