Awkward squads studying the graces!! [graphic]

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Title: Awkward squads studying the graces!! [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Woodward, G. M. approximately 1760-1809, artist.
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Published / Created: [1811?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Thomas Tegg
Abstract: A series of six scenes arranged in two rows in which a French dancing master attempts to instruct his clumsy English students in the art of dance
Description: Title etched below image.
Publisher and date of publication from British Museum catalogue.
Plate numbered "87" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 2.
Also issued separately.
"Price one shilling coloured."
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25 x 35.1 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm.
Watermark: 1817.
Leaf 30 in volume 2.
Provenance: Bound in the set of five volumes, formerly owned by Henry Arthur Johnstone. Binding: red morocco with his initials stamped in gold on the front cover in a shield with crossed swords and three floral stamps above and one below; also four floral stamps on spine with volume number and spine title in gold: The caricature magazine. Leather endpapers with his ex libris blind stamped on front flyleaf -- a boat with large sail, with a cutout in the shape of the sun in upper left. Myers; May 1942.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 25 x 36 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 75 W87 807 v.2
Collection Title: V. 2. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Collection / Other Creator: Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1811
Etchings England London 1811
Watermarks (Paper) 1817
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Dance
Teaching
Manners & customs
Violins
Subjects: Dance
Teaching
Manners & customs
Violins
England > 1811
England > London > 1811
1817
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

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