Operatical reform, or, La dance a l'eveque [graphic].

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Description

Title
Operatical reform, or, La dance a l'eveque [graphic].
Alternative Title
Dance a l'eveque
Creator
Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Contributor
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Didelot, Marie Rose Paul,---1803--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created
1798 March 14
Copyright Date
[14 March 1798]
Publication Place
[London]
Publisher
H. Humprey, St. James's Street
Abstract

"Three opera dancers, holding a garland of roses, are dressed alike in short transparent petticoats partly covered by a shorter apron. The centre dancer holds out her left leg horizontally . Mme Rose [Parisot] is in back view, her sharp features in profile to the right. On each side of the stage is a column on the plinth of which stands a figure: (left) a satyr holding a mask; (right) a woman wearing a clumsy undergarment, in the attitude of the Venus dei Medici. In front of the stage are the musical instruments of the orchestra, including a violin on which is a cap perhaps intended for a bonnet-rouge. ..."--British Museum online catalogue.

Description
Four lines of verse in two columns below image: 'Tis hard for such new fangled orthodox rules, that our opera-troop should be blam'd ...
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Title etched below image, in lower left.
Extent
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 26 x 37 cm
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
Auchincloss Gillray v. 9

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Format
still image
Genre
Etchings--England--London--1798.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1798.
Subject (Name)
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Didelot, Marie Rose Paul,---1803--Caricatures and cartoons.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Subject (Topic)
Dance.
Dancers.
Musical instruments.
Operas & operettas.
Satyrs (Greek mythology)--depicted
Theatrical productions.

Access And Usage Rights

Access
Public
Rights
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Citation
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 9298
Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 448
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 253

Identifiers

Orbis Record
8161623
Object ID (OID)
11860602

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