"A companion print to BMSat 9670. In a squalid room French dancers practise to a fiddle played by an older man (right) who dances as he plays. The parents of the four children dance, facing each other. She is elegant, buxom, with an elaborate feathered coiffure. He is lean, wearing a tattered but well-fitting coat over bare legs, with sleeve-ruffles (cf. the old gibe that the Frenchman wore ruffles but no shirt). He wears a toupee wig with a long queue. A boy and girl, both with hair elaborately dressed, dance together more vigorously. A little girl (right) with bare legs practises the first position, heels together. On the left a boy plays the pipe and tabor to two dogs, one wearing cloak and hat, whom he is teaching to dance. His chair is the only furniture except for a truckle-bed (left) turned up to the wall and a much-tilted wall-mirror (right). A lean cat has climbed to a small cupboard recessed in the wall near the ceiling and licks a stoppered bottle. The cupboard contains a coffee-pot, a covered jar, &c. A print of two clumsy peasant dancers is pinned to the wall, from which plaster has flaked. All practise with serious concentration."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., 1 print : etching on wove paper, black and white ; sheet 36 x 45.4 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark resulting in loss of imprint., and Mounted on leaf 23 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 5, 1792 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Topic):
Foreign opinion, British, Cats, Children, Couples, Dogs, Dance, and Interiors
"A companion print to BMSat 9670. In a squalid room French dancers practise to a fiddle played by an older man (right) who dances as he plays. The parents of the four children dance, facing each other. She is elegant, buxom, with an elaborate feathered coiffure. He is lean, wearing a tattered but well-fitting coat over bare legs, with sleeve-ruffles (cf. the old gibe that the Frenchman wore ruffles but no shirt). He wears a toupee wig with a long queue. A boy and girl, both with hair elaborately dressed, dance together more vigorously. A little girl (right) with bare legs practises the first position, heels together. On the left a boy plays the pipe and tabor to two dogs, one wearing cloak and hat, whom he is teaching to dance. His chair is the only furniture except for a truckle-bed (left) turned up to the wall and a much-tilted wall-mirror (right). A lean cat has climbed to a small cupboard recessed in the wall near the ceiling and licks a stoppered bottle. The cupboard contains a coffee-pot, a covered jar, &c. A print of two clumsy peasant dancers is pinned to the wall, from which plaster has flaked. All practise with serious concentration."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 5, 1792 by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Geographic):
France
Subject (Topic):
Foreign opinion, British, Cats, Children, Couples, Dogs, Dance, and Interiors
"Nine clergymen stand in conversation, the most prominent being a stout bishop (right) wearing a gown and lawn sleeves; he turns superciliously from a clergyman who addresses him, and looks towards a stout parson wearing an apron in profile to the right, who faces the bishop, his spectacles pushed up on his forehead."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Plate originally published with imprint statement: London, Pubd. Septr. 1785 by S. Alken, No. 3 Dusours Place, Broad Street, Soho ... Cf. Beinecke Library call no.: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 2., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., 1 print : etching and aquatint on wove paper ; plate mark 29 x 38.7 cm, on sheet 29.8 x 39.5 cm., and Mounted on leaf 47 of volume 4 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 5, 1792, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
"Nine clergymen stand in conversation, the most prominent being a stout bishop (right) wearing a gown and lawn sleeves; he turns superciliously from a clergyman who addresses him, and looks towards a stout parson wearing an apron in profile to the right, who faces the bishop, his spectacles pushed up on his forehead."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Plate originally published with imprint statement: London, Pubd. Septr. 1785 by S. Alken, No. 3 Dusours Place, Broad Street, Soho ... Cf. Beinecke Library call no.: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 2., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on leaf 12 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 5, 1792, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
