Waltzing [graphic].

Description

Title: Waltzing [graphic].
Published / Created: June 16, 1815.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published by the proprietor
Abstract: Six couples, some awkwardly matched, dance with varying skill in a ballroom
Description: Title etched below image, above a poem in letterpress, four stanzas in two columns.
First line of the poem: Whilst Wellington, with patriot zeal, devotes himself from morn till night ...
Sheet trimmed mostly to plate mark along the top and sides.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Pickering & Chatto; March 2020.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 19.2 x 27 cm, on sheet 38.5 x 28 cm
Language: English

Genre: Broadside poems
Satires (Visual works) England 1815
Aquatints England London 1815
Material: etching and aquatint ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Couples
Dancers
Waltz
Subjects: Couples
Dancers
Waltz
England > 1815
England > London > 1815

Access: Public
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