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1. A broad hint of not meaning to dance [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [20 November 1804]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Gillray v. 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A provincial Assembly Room, with dancers in violent action in the background, in country dance or cotillion. In the foreground is an ugly foppish and conceited fellow standing with raised coat-tails and his back to the fire. He holds cocked hat and cane, and grimaces and bows towards a pretty young woman, one foot on a fragment of her dress. She walks away from him to the left., taking her chair with her. Another pretty girl sits against the wall (r.) holding a closed fan. The dancers are bucolic and ugly. The walls are decorated with candle-sconces; a clock on the chimney-piece points to 1.25."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from Wright., Print signed using Brownlow North's device: A compass pointing north., 1 print : etching with stipple on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25.4 x 38.4 cm, on sheet 28.4 x 41.8 cm., and Mounted on leaf 28 of volume 11 of 12.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd November 20th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Ballrooms, Clocks & watches, Dancers, Fireplaces, and Sconces
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A broad hint of not meaning to dance [graphic]
2. A broad hint of not meaning to dance [graphic]
- Creator:
- Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [20 November 1804]
- Call Number:
- 804.11.20.02+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "A provincial Assembly Room, with dancers in violent action in the background, in country dance or cotillion. In the foreground is an ugly foppish and conceited fellow standing with raised coat-tails and his back to the fire. He holds cocked hat and cane, and grimaces and bows towards a pretty young woman, one foot on a fragment of her dress. She walks away from him to the left., taking her chair with her. Another pretty girl sits against the wall (r.) holding a closed fan. The dancers are bucolic and ugly. The walls are decorated with candle-sconces; a clock on the chimney-piece points to 1.25."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from Wright., Print signed using Brownlow North's device: A compass pointing north., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1829.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd November 20th, 1804, by H. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Ballrooms, Clocks & watches, Dancers, Fireplaces, and Sconces
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A broad hint of not meaning to dance [graphic]
