La poule [graphic]

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Title: La poule [graphic]
Creator: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
Contributor: Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [4 June 1817]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. June 4th, 1817 by H. Humphrey 27 St. James's Street
Abstract: "One of a pair, with the same signatures and imprint, see No. 12929. Two couples dance with vigour, holding hands in a line, the ladies facing right, the men left. Other couples stand. Fashionable dress is burlesqued, the ladies with very décolletée and short-waisted dress, with short skirts, very wide, flounced, and projecting. One has a grotesque coiffure, hair strained into a pyramid, bound with ribbon, and topped by an absurd flower. The dandified men wear knee-breeches or tight pantaloons with high collars; hair cropped on the neck and projecting like an inverted basin. The room is bare except for festooned curtains."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from caption below image.
Watermark: J. Whatman.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xv, p. 59.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 25 x 35.3 cm, on sheet 27 x 38 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1817
Etchings England London 1817
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching with stipple ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Couples
Dance parties
Dancers
Dandies
British
Subjects: Couples
Dance parties
Dancers
Dandies > British
England > 1817
England > London > 1817

Access: Public
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