Grown ladies taught to dance [graphic]Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker[1 January 1768]eng"A satire on pretensions to elegance showing a fine room in which a thin elderly dancing master teaches a stout young woman to dance, while an older woman sitting behind watches them. A man sits strumming a guitar to the left, books and sheets of music lie on the floor; a monkey plays with a fan; a little dog capers on its hind legs behind the dancing pair. On the wall behind are two pictures in ornate frames, one of a dancing couple and the other of a bear dancing with its keeper."--British Museum online catalogueTitle etched below image.Printmaker and publisher identified as Matthias Darly in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: J,5.80.Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement and plate number. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum.Plate numbered "66" in upper right corner.Temporary local subject terms: Dancing lessons -- Music-books -- Bear-leaders -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Female costume -- Male costume -- Dancers.