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1. A jig on board [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1818]
- Call Number:
- 818.00.00.57+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A sailor and a young woman dance a jig on the deck of a man-of-war, watched by a sailor leaning from the forecastle roof (right). They dance side by side, man's left arm raised, holding his hat, woman with hands on hips."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Printmaker and date from British Museum catalogue., Attributed to Captain Hehl in British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed leaving thread margins., and Watermark: GP. 1813.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Dance, Sailors, British, and Ships
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A jig on board [graphic]
2. All max in the east, a scene in Tom & Jerry, or, Life in London [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gleadah, Joshua, active 1815-1836, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [24 April 1822]
- Call Number:
- 822.04.24.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A dustman dances with a black woman as a black musician plays the fiddle and spectators look on. A picture on the back wall and a poster on the chimney shows people hanging from gallows
- Alternative Title:
- Scene in Tom & Jerry, Scene in Tom and Jerry, and Life in London
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Ms. note following date in imprint: '1822', Sheet trimmed leaving thread margins., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Cansell 1818.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. April 24 by S.W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly
- Subject (Topic):
- Blacks, Audiences, Dance, Hangings (Executions), Musicians, and Garbage collecting
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > All max in the east, a scene in Tom & Jerry, or, Life in London [graphic]
3. John Bull learning a new movement against the next campaign [graphic].
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [21 March 1799]
- Call Number:
- 799.03.21.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "John Bull (left) capers clumsily to a tune played by Pitt, Dundas, and two others. He has a drink-bloated profile, wears a round hat and old-fashioned buckled shoes. He says: "Lord love ye my good Masters - do give us something new - I be tired of all the old Jigs - I knows the March to Paris by heart, - and as for Indemnity for the Past, and Security for the future, they are as easy to me as my A-B-C - I want something stilish, and grand." Pitt, seated, plays a large 'cello incorrectly drawn and having a rose under the strings which suggests the viol da gamba. He looks up at John Bull jauntily, saying, "I will endeavour to please you if I can, what do you think of this - it is a grand serious-movement called the Deliverance of Europe or Union with Ireland". Dundas (right), wearing kilt and feathered bonnet with legal wig and bands, stands in profile to the left, impassively playing the bagpipes. Two background figures dejectedly play wind-instruments; one is probably Grenville."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from item., Printmaker from Krumbhaar. Attributed to Sansom in the British Museum Catalogue., Printseller's announcement following publication statement: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening., and Watermark: Strasburg lily.
- Publisher:
- Pub March 21, 1799, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- Pitt, William, 1759-1806 and Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811
- Subject (Topic):
- John Bull (Symbolic character), Bagpipes, Dance, Musical instruments, and Violoncellos
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > John Bull learning a new movement against the next campaign [graphic].
4. La belle assemblée, or, Sketches of characteristic dancing [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker, artist
- Published / Created:
- [31 August 1817]
- Call Number:
- 817.08.31.01++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Eight groups or couples display different dances, the names of which are in the lower margin. On the extreme left stands [1] a 'Dancing Master', thin, dandified, stooping, arms dropped, fiddle and bow in left hand, feet turned out. [2] 'Country Dance'. Three couples, 'hands across'. [3] 'Scots Reel' A man in Highland dress dances between two women in a six-hand reel. [4] 'Irish Jig'. Three bandy-legged peasants jig: man (holding up a 'Whiskey' bottle), woman, and small boy who drinks from a glass and holds a large shillelagh. [5] The centre-piece: 'La Minuet'. A very slim man in court-dress, with powdered queue, dances with a lady who holds up the train of a limp gown. Behind them is the musicians' gallery supported on two palm-tree pillars, round which serpents are twined from whose mouths gas-flames issue. A life-like 'Terpsichore' supports the drapery of the box, which is inscribed 'On the light fantastic toe'. The front of the box is decorated with fantastic dancing figures, including a Red Indian, a Harlequin, a Punch; some are in lines and dots (cf. No. 12955). The instruments are flutes, bagpipes, harp, violins, 'cello, oboe, French horn. On the right: [6] 'German Waltz', an ugly couple, her hands on his shoulders, his on her waist. [7] 'French Quadrille'. One man and three ladies face three men and one lady. [8] 'Spanish Boliero'. A couple dance, clicking castanets, the man wears slashed doublet with knee-breeches. [9] 'Ballet Italienne'. Two dancers, each poised on a toe, leg extended, holding between them a long garland of roses. Beside them dances a little Italian greyhound. The wall which forms a background is covered with pictures, flanking the gallery. 'Dancing Dogs': a man with a whip directs five dressed-up dogs on their hind-legs. 'Dancing Bear'. A man holds the muzzled bear on a chain; a dressed-up monkey capers on the bear's head; a boy plays pipe and tabor. 'Dancing Horse'. On the stage of an equestrian theatre a man in light horse uniform, a clown behind him, directs the movements of a horse. 'Rope Dancing'. A woman ascends a slanting tight-rope, while rockets explode around her. 'St Vitus's Dance'. A fat doctor, smelling his cane, holds the pulse of a capering and emaciated invalid. 'Dancing Mad'. Two men leap or prance frantically in rage or despair, while a third capers at the end of a rope by which he hangs from a gibbet."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Sketches of characteristic dancing
- Description:
- Title from caption below image. and Watermark: John Hall 1814.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. August 31st, 1817, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
- Subject (Topic):
- Balls (Parties), Couples, Dance, Musical instruments, Orchestras, and Trained animals
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > La belle assemblée, or, Sketches of characteristic dancing [graphic]
5. Les graces de Chesterfield, or, Quadrille dancing pour la pratique [graphic].
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [May 1817]
- Call Number:
- 817.05.00.04+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "One of a set (coloured) by Williams, all with the same imprint (British Museum Satires Nos. 12933-6). An adaptation of British Museum Satires No. 12925. The stout man dancing between two ladies is in military uniform with a large sabre. The room is altered by the addition of a side wall (left) to which the fireplace is transferred. In its place is the square piano under a large mirror. All the figures are altered; a lady in an arm-chair with a man leaning over her has been added. Elaborate gas or oil lighting replaces candles: a hanging chandelier with a circle of globes with chimneys, with similar lamps in brackets on a glass over the chimney-piece, which is surmounted by a standing lamp. There are three whole length portraits of dancers striking attitudes, two being 'Mde H[i]llisburgh' and 'Monr Vestris'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Quadrille dancing pour la pratique
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Attributed to Charles Williams in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., "No. 3"--Upper left corner., and Watermark: John Hall.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. May 1817 by S.W. Fores
- Subject (Topic):
- Dance, Chandeliers, Gaslight fixtures, and Military uniforms
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Les graces de Chesterfield, or, Quadrille dancing pour la pratique [graphic].
6. Rehearsing a cotilion [graphic]
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac, 1764-1811, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- April 2, 1792.
- Call Number:
- Drawer 792.04.02.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Groups of dancers practise figures of a cotillion in a ballroom with a small musician's gallery supported on pillars, in which are an oboist, two violinists, and a harpist, playing intently and paying no attention to a man who stands below, with outstretched arms, shouting directions. The room is lit by candles in wall brackets. In the centre of the balcony is an oval medallion: a man plays a lyre and three nude nymphs dance. Several of the dancers hold papers of directions headed 'Cotilion', with a description of figures '1' to '8'. The scene is one of confusion. On the left persons stand inspecting the dancers. One man only is dressed as a blood of the period with cropped hair, high-collared waistcoat, 'hanging collar', and long breeches (see British Museum Satires No. 8040, &c). He stands (left) superciliously inspecting the dancers through an eye-glass."--British Museum online catalogue and The pictures in the image amplify the subject: Nymphs dancing to music of lyre
- Alternative Title:
- Rehearsing a cotillion
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark and mutilated on lower edge with partial loss of imprint statement. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Mounted on modern secondary support., Watermark., and Figures identified by ms. notes in pencil at bottom of sheet.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Topic):
- Ballrooms, Balls (Parties), Dance, Eyeglasses, Galleries (Upper level spaces), Musicians, and Sconces
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Rehearsing a cotilion [graphic]
7. Rules for a warm weather ball, or, Salutary conduct for corpulent dancers [graphic]
- Creator:
- Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1806?]
- Call Number:
- 811.00.00.42+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Scene in an assembly room. A mountainously fat woman stands fanning herself, as she talks to a stout man in old-fashioned dress. She says: "Dear me it is perdigus Hot! which would you advise me to do take a Rubber or Dance." He answers: "Dance first! Madam, and take the Rubber afterwards." A fashionably dressed but vulgar-looking man stands by, looking quizzically at the lady. In the background (left) is a high musicians' gallery, and below it four people dance a (?) country dance. There is a cut-glass chandelier. Through an ornate arched doorway four people are seen playing cards."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Salutary conduct for corpulent dancers
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Argus is a pseudonym for Charles Williams., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., and Watermark: Cassell.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Obesity, Fans (Accessories), Dance, and Chandeliers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Rules for a warm weather ball, or, Salutary conduct for corpulent dancers [graphic]
8. Run neighbours, run, St. Al-ns is quadrilling it [graphic]
- Creator:
- Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- May 1829.
- Call Number:
- 829.05.00.08+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "The Duchess of St. Albans, immensely fat, florid, and bejewelled, and a stout elderly naval officer wearing loose wide trousers, and apparently doing hornpipe steps, his hands on his hips, dance side by side with rollicking abandon. The others of the set: one man and two ladies on the left and one lady and two men on the right dance rigidly erect, and watch the central pair with hauteur; the men are dandies, the women slim and fashionable. The duchess has a swirling paradise-plume in her towering loops of hair, above tossing ringlets."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Run neighbours, run, St. Albans is quadrilling it
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Print signed using William Heath's device: A man with an umbrella., British Museum curator's note: The naval officer is (unconvincingly) identified by E. Hawkins as Sir George Warrender (1782-1849), a Huskissonite M.P. who was never in the navy; he was a Lord of the Admiralty 1812-22; he appears, in back view, in a "Sketch of a Ball at Almack's, 1815" (Gronow, 'Reminiscences', 1892, ii, frontispiece). Perhaps Lord Amelius Beauclerk (1771-1806), her husband's uncle. Cf. 'Croker Papers', 1884, ii. 200., and Watermark: 1827.
- Publisher:
- Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket
- Subject (Geographic):
- England
- Subject (Name):
- St. Albans, Harriot Mellon, Duchess of, 1777?-1837, Beauclerk, Amelius, 1771-1846, and Warrender, George, 1782-1849
- Subject (Topic):
- Clothing & dress, Dandies, British, Obesity, Balls (Parties), and Dance
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Run neighbours, run, St. Al-ns is quadrilling it [graphic]
9. Waltzing [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- June 16, 1825.
- Call Number:
- 825.06.16.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., Four stanzas of verse in letterpress below title: Whilst Wellington, with patriot zeal, devotes himself from morn till night ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. by Mr. Humphries, 65, St. Jamess St
- Subject (Topic):
- Couples and Dance
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Waltzing [graphic].
