Grown ladies taught to dance [graphic]

Description

Title: Grown ladies taught to dance [graphic]
Creator: Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Contributor: Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 January 1768]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. by MDarly, Jan. 1, 1768, Strand
Abstract: "A satire on pretensions to elegance showing a fine room in which a thin elderly dancing master teaches a stout young woman to dance, while an older woman sitting behind watches them. A man sits strumming a guitar to the left, books and sheets of music lie on the floor; a monkey plays with a fan; a little dog capers on its hind legs behind the dancing pair. On the wall behind are two pictures in ornate frames, one of a dancing couple and the other of a bear dancing with its keeper."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Printmaker and publisher identified as Matthias Darly in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: J,5.80.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement and plate number. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum.
Plate numbered "66" in upper right corner.
Temporary local subject terms: Dancing lessons -- Music-books -- Bear-leaders -- Pictures amplifying subject -- Female costume -- Male costume -- Dancers.
Bound in opposite page 79 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Provenance: With the armorial bookplates of "Fraser, of Ledeclune, baronet" and "Herbert Henry Raphael" in volume. Sold at Sotheby's, 22 April 1901, to Sotheran. Schatzki, lot 1193; June 1961;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 32 x 26 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Quarto 724 771N
Collection Title: Opposite page 79. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Collection / Other Creator: King, Richard, Esq.
Collection Date: London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].