An engraved sheet folded and mounted on wooden sticks secured with brass and bone hardware to form a fan, probably designed as a portable aide-memoire, includes musical scores for eighteen dances as well as directions for the dance steps -- e.g., "The 2nd Lady Lead round the 2d. Gent, the Gent. Do the Same, Lead Down the middle up again Cast off. Pousete" is given for the Duke of Clarence's Fancy. The decorative border is hand-colored in pink. On the verso is a sheet decorated with a small emblem with musical instruments and notations
Description:
Title from engraved text at top head of sheet., Place of publication suggested by preponderance of Scottish tunes., Date of publication based on the arrival of the waltz in England in 1791, included in this selection. See Oxford companion to Music (7th ed.), page 1112., and Width of sheet is an approximation, trimmed within plate mark. A separate sheet mounted on verso is printed with an emblem incorporating musical instruments. The contemporary fan case is covered in mottled green and orange Dutch gilt paper.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Scotland
Subject (Topic):
Country-dances (Music), Country dancing, Musical instruments, and Musical notation
Title from item., Restrike from: Kay, J. Series of original portraits and caricature etchings. Edinburgh : Hugh Paton, Carver and Gilder, 1842., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book., Third of three plates depicting walking-match between Hamilton Bell and Edward Innes, from Edinburgh to Musselburgh, 1792., Temporary local subject terms: Races: walking-match Bell vs. Innes, 1792 -- Interiors: sheriff's office -- Trades: clerks -- Wagers -- Bell, Hamilton -- Rae, John (surgeon-dentist and Bell's bottle-holder) -- Pringle, John, Deputy-Sheriff of Edinburgh., and Restrike.
Title from item., Numbered '150' in lower right of plate., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1877)., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book., Restrike of No. 8118 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., and Temporary local subject terms: Allusion to Dundas's opposition to the reform of the Royal Burghs, 1792 -- Allusion to Edinburgh riots, 1792 -- Male costume: cloak.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811 and Stirling, James, Sir, 1740 or 1741-1805
Title from item., Numbered '130' in lower right of plate., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1877)., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Captain James Justice, 1755-?
Title from British Museum catalogue., Second of three plates depicting walking-match between Hamilton Bell and Edward Innes, from Edinburgh to Musselburgh, 1792., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1842)., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book., and Temporary local subject terms: Male costume: spatterdashers, 1792 -- Trades: fishwives -- Bottle-holders -- Walking-matches -- Races: walking-match Bell vs. Innes, 1792 -- Innes, Edward, d. 1808 -- Cooper, James, d. 1818 (jeweler and Innes's bottle-holder).
Title from item., Numbered '299' in lower right of plate., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1877)., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Billair, Captain.
Title devised by cataloger., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book., Plate probably from: Kay, J. Series of original portraits and caricature etchings. Edinburgh : Hugh Paton, Carver and Gilder, 1842., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Blair, Thomas, d. 1800 -- Walking staves.
Title from item., Numbered '142' in lower right of plate., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay (1877 ed.)., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Title devised by cataloger., Numbered '115' in lower right of plate., Probably from: Kay, J. Series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, volume i., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Clergy.
