Hobbies or Attitude is Every Thing: Dedicated with Permission to all Dandy Horsemen
Possibly by William Heath ('Paul Pry') British
Publisher Thomas Tegg British
Not on view
Dandies here ride velocipedes instead of horses through park, with one nearly colliding with a pedestrian. Heath devoted a series of satires to velocipedes--foot-propelled bikes popularly known as hobbies--in response to a craze that swept fashionable London in 1819. That year Denis Johnson promoted a British model that he based on an 1817 design developed in Baden by Baron Karl von Drais (called a Laufmachine (running machine) or Draisine). The craze soon subsided as accidents mounted, and high fines were issued to those who rode on sidewalks.
