"A companion print to BMSat 9670. In a squalid room French dancers practise to a fiddle played by an older man (right) who dances as he plays. The parents of the four children dance, facing each other. She is elegant, buxom, with an elaborate feathered coiffure. He is lean, wearing a tattered but well-fitting coat over bare legs, with sleeve-ruffles (cf. the old gibe that the Frenchman wore ruffles but no shirt). He wears a toupee wig with a long queue. A boy and girl, both with hair elaborately dressed, dance together more vigorously. A little girl (right) with bare legs practises the first position, heels together. On the left a boy plays the pipe and tabor to two dogs, one wearing cloak and hat, whom he is teaching to dance. His chair is the only furniture except for a truckle-bed (left) turned up to the wall and a much-tilted wall-mirror (right). A lean cat has climbed to a small cupboard recessed in the wall near the ceiling and licks a stoppered bottle. The cupboard contains a coffee-pot, a covered jar, &c. A print of two clumsy peasant dancers is pinned to the wall, from which plaster has flaked. All practise with serious concentration."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 5, 1792 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Topic):
Foreign opinion, British, Cats, Children, Couples, Dogs, Dance, and Interiors
Leaf 5. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Two couples dancing a reel. The ladies wear the monstrous feathered coiffures then fashionable, see British Museum Satires No. 5370, &c. The man on the left is short, ungainly, and very fat, he walks rather than dances. The other man dances with energy, one arm raised. All wear gloves."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Description:
Title etched below image., State without plate number. For a variant state with "5" etched in upper left corner, see no. 5374 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., and On leaf 5.
Title from caption below image., Artist from signature on companion print in the British Museum catalogue., Date of publication based on that of the print from which this design was copied. See no. 7229 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark and artist's signature erased from lower left corner., Design consists of ten figures arranged in two rows., A companion print to no. 7229A in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Window mounted to 27 x 37 cm.
Volume 2, page 55. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A strip design of ten couples in different stages of the minuet, All dance in silence; the expressions of the male dancers denote anxiety, determination, or complacency. All are intended to be ugly, or awkward, or both, but the figures have charm, and even in some cases a certain grace. ... None of the men suggests a parson, most are lean and none corpulent by eighteenth-century standards."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
Description:
Title etched below image on second and third plates., Variant state, lacking the text "Bos, Fur, Sus, atque Sacerdos" above image on second plate. Cf. No. 7229 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Sheets trimmed within plate mark., A single design on four plates., Text in Latin below title, etched on second and third plates: Longa Tysonum Minuit Quid Velit et possit rerum concordia discors. Horace., Mounted on page 55 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs., and Sheet annotated by Horace Walpole in ink beneath Latin text: Tyson was Master of the Ceremonies at Bath.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 25th, 1787, by W. Dickinson, engraver, Bond Street
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"In a bare room with a raftered roof couples are energetically dancing, holding hands behind their backs, or above their heads. The women, with one exception, are young and handsome, the men ugly and plebeian. A seated fiddler plays with closed eyes (right). Through a doorway partly covered with curtains the bride and bridegroom are seen embracing. On the wall is a placard: 'They dance in a round, cutting capers and ramping. A mercy the ground did not burst with their stamping.The floor is all wett, with leaps and with jumps, while the water and sweat, splish splash in their pumps'."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state; former plate number "315" has been replaced with a new number, and imprint statement has been completely burnished from plate., Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint: Pubd. Febry. 20, 1814, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside. Cf. No. 12403 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate numbered "269" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed with plate mark on three sides., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 276., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 35.4 x 25.1 cm, on sheet 41.8 x 25.6 cm., and Leaf 88 in volume 4.
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"In a bare room with a raftered roof couples are energetically dancing, holding hands behind their backs, or above their heads. The women, with one exception, are young and handsome, the men ugly and plebeian. A seated fiddler plays with closed eyes (right). Through a doorway partly covered with curtains the bride and bridegroom are seen embracing. On the wall is a placard: 'They dance in a round, cutting capers and ramping. A mercy the ground did not burst with their stamping.The floor is all wett, with leaps and with jumps, while the water and sweat, splish splash in their pumps'."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state; former plate number "315" has been replaced with a new number, and imprint statement has been completely burnished from plate., Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint: Pubd. Febry. 20, 1814, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside. Cf. No. 12403 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate numbered "269" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 4., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed with plate mark on three sides., Cf. Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 276., and Watermark: Charles Wise.
A caricature of a couple, shown full-length, dancing awkwardly. A lanky man attempts to dance with a corpulent woman but steps on her dress hem in the process
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Attributed to William Heath by curator., and William Heath, English caricaturist and illustrator, 1795-1840.
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Reissue of no. 12138 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9; originally published Apr. 28, 1813, by H. Humphrey., Temporary local subject terms: Election balls -- Lighting: Chandeliers., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 67.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Ballrooms, Balls (Parties), Chandeliers, Couples, Dance, and Musicians
In a well-furnished room Tom and Kate waltz gracefully. Logic, at the piano (right), looks over his shoulder at the pair with a delighted grin. Jerry sits on a couch, with a second courtesan (Sue). Both women wear evening dress with long gloves. On a table are decanters, fruit, &c. There are wide folding doors flanked by pictures that amplify the subject
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publication information from British Museum catalogue., Illustration to: Egan, P. Life in London, page 250., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and State without imprint statement. Cf. No. 14334 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Sherwood, Neely, & Jones
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Courtesans, Dance, Musicians, Parlors, and Pianos