Minuet la cour [graphic].

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Description

Title
Minuet la cour [graphic].
Creator
Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
Contributor
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1846, publisher.
Published / Created
[not before 6 June 1817]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
By T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London
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.
Leaf 47 in volume 3.
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 26 x 36 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 75 W87 807 v.3
Collection Title
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Collection / Other Creator
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809.

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Satires (Visual works) England 1817
Etchings England London 1817
Material
etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Geographic)
England
Subject (Topic)
Balls (Parties)
Chandeliers
Clothing & dress
Couples
Dandies
Dance
Spectators
Subjects
Balls (Parties)
Chandeliers
Clothing & dress > England > 1810-1820
Couples
Dandies > Dandies
Dance
Spectators
England > 1817
England > London > 1817
Johnstone, Henry Arthur > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
9212429
Object ID (OID)
16192778

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