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- Creator:
- Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [15 August 1811]
- Call Number:
- 811.08.15.01++
- Image Count:
- 5
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A country dance; eighteen couples in a strip design in the manner of the 'Long Minuet' (No. 7229), dance with awkward vigour; one of the most active ladies has a wooden leg. The first couple (left) face each other, the lady squinting violently. On the right a man turns eagerly from his elderly and offended partner to a young lady, whose partner also holds the hand of another lady, while an elderly man stands alone on the extreme right, holding his wig, and mopping his bald head. The elder men wear powdered hair with small pigtails, the younger ones have frizzed hair without powder, short or with small tails. Only one or two wear wigs. The women wear simple high-waisted gowns with elbow sleeves and long gloves; one wears a hat and long sleeves. All wear flat-heeled shoes, and have frizzed hair, short, or piled on the head; a few wear feathered bandeaux; one lady only has powdered hair. Some have strange hair ornaments: a fat and very decolletee lady with a lap-dog under her arm wears round her erect bush of hair a circlet from which project barbed zigzags, like lightning flashes. A youngish lady has on her head a bird with a barbed fang; an older one in spectacles wears a small windmill behind two drooping aigrettes. The neglected lady wears a tiny wheat-sheaf, her pretty rival a ship in full sail. Below the title: 'What an elegant Set-What a bustling of Rumps! What a Sweet Toe to Toe-ing of Slipers and Pumps! At the sight my Old Drumsticks are ready to Prance There is nothing I love so as seeing Folks Dance.'':--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from caption etched below image on third sheet., Artist's signature from impression in the British Museum., Four lines of verse below title: What an elegant set, what a bustling of rumps! What a sweet toe to toe-ing of slipers [sic] and pumps! ..., One continuous design on five plates., Description based on imperfect impression; sheets trimmed within plate mark and artist's signature erased from lower left corner of first sheet., and BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. Untrimmed. Artist's signature visible on lower left corner of first sheet. Hand-colored.
- Publisher:
- Published Aug. 15, 1811, by Robinson, 5 Margaret Street, Cavindish Square & Calnaghi, Cockspur Street
- Subject (Geographic):
- Great Britain. and Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- Caricatures and cartoons, Social aspects, English wit and humor, Pictorial, Social life and customs, and Dance
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Lumps of pudding [graphic]
3.
- Creator:
- Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not before 6 June 1817]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 W87 807 v.3
- Collection Title:
- V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A satire on costume, showing the unsuitability of modern dress to the minuet. A grotesque man bends towards his partner, taking her left hand in his right. The other guests stand or sit. He has a large moustache, a shock of hair, high shirt-collar, short-waisted coat with long tails, and loose striped trousers, tied in above the ankle. His partner has short skirt hanging from just below the breast which she holds up by the hem; towering feathers rise from a wreath of flowers on her head. A man in back view (right) wears tight pantaloons tied below the calf, others wear loose trousers. There is a hanging chandelier with candles."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Questionable attribution to William Heath from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Later state; former plate number "391" has been replaced with a new plate number, and beginning of imprint statement has been burnished from plate., Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: Pub. June 6th, 1817, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London. Cf. No. 12938 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate numbered "193" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25 x 35.2 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., and Leaf 47 in volume 3.
- Publisher:
- By T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Balls (Parties), Chandeliers, Clothing & dress, Couples, Dandies, Dance, and Spectators
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Minuet la cour [graphic].
4.
- Creator:
- Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not before 6 June 1817]
- Call Number:
- 817.06.06.01+
- Collection Title:
- V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A satire on costume, showing the unsuitability of modern dress to the minuet. A grotesque man bends towards his partner, taking her left hand in his right. The other guests stand or sit. He has a large moustache, a shock of hair, high shirt-collar, short-waisted coat with long tails, and loose striped trousers, tied in above the ankle. His partner has short skirt hanging from just below the breast which she holds up by the hem; towering feathers rise from a wreath of flowers on her head. A man in back view (right) wears tight pantaloons tied below the calf, others wear loose trousers. There is a hanging chandelier with candles."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Questionable attribution to William Heath from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Later state; former plate number "391" has been replaced with a new plate number, and beginning of imprint statement has been burnished from plate., Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: Pub. June 6th, 1817, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London. Cf. No. 12938 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate numbered "193" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Also issued separately., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge.
- Publisher:
- By T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Topic):
- Balls (Parties), Chandeliers, Clothing & dress, Couples, Dandies, Dance, and Spectators
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Minuet la cour [graphic].
5.
- Creator:
- Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- May 1829.
- Call Number:
- 829.05.00.08+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The Duchess of St. Albans, immensely fat, florid, and bejewelled, and a stout elderly naval officer wearing loose wide trousers, and apparently doing hornpipe steps, his hands on his hips, dance side by side with rollicking abandon. The others of the set: one man and two ladies on the left and one lady and two men on the right dance rigidly erect, and watch the central pair with hauteur; the men are dandies, the women slim and fashionable. The duchess has a swirling paradise-plume in her towering loops of hair, above tossing ringlets."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Run neighbours, run, St. Albans is quadrilling it
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., British Museum curator's note: The naval officer is (unconvincingly) identified by E. Hawkins as Sir George Warrender (1782-1849), a Huskissonite M.P. who was never in the navy; he was a Lord of the Admiralty 1812-22; he appears, in back view, in a "Sketch of a Ball at Almack's, 1815" (Gronow, 'Reminiscences', 1892, ii, frontispiece). Perhaps Lord Amelius Beauclerk (1771-1806), her husband's uncle. Cf. 'Croker Papers', 1884, ii. 200., and Watermark: 1827.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- St. Albans, Harriot Mellon, Duchess of, 1777?-1837, Beauclerk, Amelius, 1771-1846, and Warrender, George, 1782-1849
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Obesity, Balls (Parties), and Dance
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Run neighbours, run, St. Al-ns is quadrilling it [graphic]
