"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:
Plate numbered "315" in upper right corner. and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.
Subject (Topic):
Couples. , Dance., Musicians. , Tailors. , and Weddings.
A scene in a tavern cellar, with a young woman, gaily dressed, dancing a jig with a man wearing an apron; at left, a sailor playing the violin, at right, a sailor sitting on steps and leaning forward, smoking, resting his arms on a barrel, another beside him holding a bowl, a young woman standing behind them with a hand on the shoulder of each; behind, three amorous couples, including a sailor sitting on another barrel.
Alternative Title:
Adieu to Old England
Description:
Image size including ruled lines: 245 x 345 mm., Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Publish'd January 20th, 1818 by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside,
Subject (Name):
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership., Great Britain.--Royal Navy--History--19th century--Caricatures and cartoons., Great Britain.--Royal Navy--Pictorial works., Harvey, Francis--Ownership., and Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845, publisher.