"A provincial Assembly Room. A musicians' gallery (right) is above a recess which is the entrance from the street. In this a young woman changes pattens for dancing-shoes, supporting herself on the arm of a stout woman with a pin-cushion slung from her arm. A lighted lantern stands on the floor. In the foreground a couple advances from this entry, meeting a younger pair. In the background against the wall couples are dancing, facing each other, the man holding his partner's wrist. An absurd couple on a settee (left) flirt, the lady holding a tumbler, the man fanning her. Behind, two men delightedly inspect a paper headed 'Election 1812'. On the wall is a bill: 'Sir Toby Spendall returns his most grateful thanks to the worthy Freemen for thier kind support during the late Election.' From the pocket of an elderly man near the door hang two papers: 'State of the Pole' and 'To the Worthy Freemen'. In the foreground (right) a pair of half-boots, a cane, and a hat lie together. The room is lit by hanging candelabra and candle-sconces."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Temporary local subject terms: Musician's gallery -- Pattens -- Fiddle.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 28th 1813 by H. Humphrey No. 27 St. James's Strt
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Reissue of no. 12138 in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9; originally published Apr. 28, 1813, by H. Humphrey., Temporary local subject terms: Election balls -- Lighting: Chandeliers., and Numbered in ms. at top of sheet: 67.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Thos. McLean, 26, Haymarket
Subject (Topic):
Ballrooms, Balls (Parties), Chandeliers, Couples, Dance, and Musicians
A solemn looking Lady Henrietta Sykes possibly attending the 1832 ball at Hasting is dressed in a puffy dark-black gown cinched tight at the waist with a gold colored belt and accessorized with whilte gloves. She wears a gold and silver crown and red flowers in her somewhat unkempt brunette hair
Alternative Title:
Caracature of Lady Sykes as she appeared at a ball at Hasting and Caricature of Lady Sykes as she appeared at at a ball at Hasting
Description:
Title from ms. inscription in black ink in contemporary hand on verso. and Date from graphite pencil inscription below image.
Subject (Geographic):
England. and England
Subject (Topic):
Ball dresses, Balls (Parties), and Clothing & dress
Title etched below image., Tenth plate of twelve, designed to illustrate Christopher Anstey's The new Bath guide., Republished in 1857 by Robert Walker. See no. 9321 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., 1 print : etching and aquatint, hand-colored ; sheet 18.7 x 25.9 cm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. January 6th, 1798, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
Subject (Geographic):
Bath (England)
Subject (Name):
Anstey, Christopher, 1724-1805.
Subject (Topic):
Health resorts, Dance, Balls (Parties), Ballrooms, Chandeliers, and Ballroom dancing
Title etched below image., Tenth plate of twelve, designed to illustrate Christopher Anstey's The new Bath guide., Republished in 1857 by Robert Walker. See no. 9321 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7., and Mounted on leaf 5 of volume 5 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. January 6th, 1798, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
Subject (Geographic):
Bath (England)
Subject (Name):
Anstey, Christopher, 1724-1805.
Subject (Topic):
Health resorts, Dance, Balls (Parties), Ballrooms, Chandeliers, and Ballroom dancing
A satire set in an assembly room: Two well-dressed older men with caricatured faces, one with gloves and a large belly, bow to a old woman equally caricatured. The other members of the party are also caricatured in the background, some dancing. Musicians play in the balcony above on the right
Description:
Title etched below image., Probably a reissue; date following Rowlandson's signature has most likely been altered from "1802." See Grego., Text below title: Graces, the Graces, remember the Graces., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 21.3 x 25.2 cm, on sheet 22.8 x 28.3 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Balls (Parties), Couples, Dance, Manners & customs, and Musicians
A satire set in an assembly room: Two well-dressed older men with caricatured faces, one with gloves and a large belly, bow to a old woman equally caricatured. The other members of the party are also caricatured in the background, some dancing. Musicians play in the balcony above on the right
Description:
Title etched below image., Probably a reissue; date following Rowlandson's signature has most likely been altered from "1802." See Grego., Text below title: Graces, the Graces, remember the Graces., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on leaf 21 of volume 12 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Balls (Parties), Couples, Dance, Manners & customs, and Musicians
"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
In the third state, a black ribbon appears on the neck of the woman in the foreground; drypoint lines are added to her fur stole. Three faces appear above the figure bending over to kiss the ladie's hand; they are two men and one woman
Alternative Title:
Worldly triumph
Description:
In pencil bottom edge of sheet: Le Triomphe mondain; 3 etat., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., and In pencil lower margin: Tiré à 100 ; A Besnard.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Rich people, Balls (Parties), Carriages & coaches, Horses, and Kissing
"Heading to an engraved broadside. A servants' ball in the Pavilion, the musicians in the gallery being Ministers (left to right): Sidmouth and Liverpool play a duet at a square piano, gaping at each other; Eldon blows bagpipes; Castlereagh plays a harp. George IV waltzes with a fat, plainly dressed cook; he says: "How poor a thing may do a noble office!" A black footman dances with a fat lady; another lady dances amorously with a fat footman. One courtier (Bloomfield) dances with and embraces a fat cook, another has a more elegant partner. In the foreground stands Lady Conyngham (left), distressed and alarmed, her husband's antlered profile is just behind her; both wear coronets. She says: "Ah! with his scullion! Titles & rank are my defence But what can save her insolence!" He says: "If he has turn'd up my Wife I indeed may say--[citing Wolsey] "Farewell a long farewel to all my greatness!"" The wall and gallery are patterned with Chinese figures. The verses begin: 'Releas'd from all the toils of State . . .' The 4th, 5th, 6th, and 10th of 12 verses: '"I've supp'd within my kitchen range, "But I'll descend no more;* "The scene this night I'll wholly change, "Upstairs--invite uproar. "No virtuous women visit me-- "They dread to lose their name-- "I'll condescend--with those make free "Who never blush'd with shame. "Twas wrong when C--e eat perchance, With Vassali and Bergami-- "I'll eat with Cooks, with Scullions dance-- "I can't do wrong [see British Museum Satires No. 14133], G--d d--n me." . . . And Cunning-one moved not a limb, But stood amazed with wonder! To see the K--g's disgraceful whim, And, Vow'd she'd pull 'm asunder. . . ."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Humours of the great baby at B***ht*n and Humours of the great baby at Brighton
Description:
Title etched in center of plate, below image and above verses., Printmaker attribution to Marks from the British Museum catalogue., Twelve stanzas of verse in two columns below title, beginning: Releas'd from all the toils of state, From care and sorrow free ..., Text in lower margin, beneath verses: *See Marks's caricature of "He stoops to conquer, or, R-l George sunk" [British Museum Satires No. 13210]., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 48 in volume 2 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figures of "Lady Conyngham," "Ld. Bloomfield," and "George IV" identified in pencil at bottom of image; figures of "Sidmouth," "Liverpool," "Eldon," and "Londonderry" idenfied in pencil above print on mounting sheet. Date "24 Jan. 1821" written in ink in lower right corner of sheet. Typed extract of ten lines from the British Museum catalogue description is pasted beneath print.
Publisher:
Pub. by J.L. Marks, No. 28 Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, Conyngham, Henry Conyngham, Marquess, 1766-1832, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Liverpool, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Earl of, 1770-1828, Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount, 1757-1844, Castlereagh, Robert Stewart, Viscount, 1769-1822, Bloomfield, Benjamin Bloomfield, Baron, 1768-1846, and Royal Pavilion (Brighton, England),
Subject (Topic):
Interiors, Balls (Parties), Adultery, Musicians, Servants, Dance, and Antlers
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A satire on costume, showing the unsuitability of modern dress to the minuet. A grotesque man bends towards his partner, taking her left hand in his right. The other guests stand or sit. He has a large moustache, a shock of hair, high shirt-collar, short-waisted coat with long tails, and loose striped trousers, tied in above the ankle. His partner has short skirt hanging from just below the breast which she holds up by the hem; towering feathers rise from a wreath of flowers on her head. A man in back view (right) wears tight pantaloons tied below the calf, others wear loose trousers. There is a hanging chandelier with candles."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Questionable attribution to William Heath from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Later state; former plate number "391" has been replaced with a new plate number, and beginning of imprint statement has been burnished from plate., Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: Pub. June 6th, 1817, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London. Cf. No. 12938 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate numbered "193" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Also issued separately., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 25 x 35.2 cm, on sheet 25.6 x 41.8 cm., and Leaf 47 in volume 3.
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"A satire on costume, showing the unsuitability of modern dress to the minuet. A grotesque man bends towards his partner, taking her left hand in his right. The other guests stand or sit. He has a large moustache, a shock of hair, high shirt-collar, short-waisted coat with long tails, and loose striped trousers, tied in above the ankle. His partner has short skirt hanging from just below the breast which she holds up by the hem; towering feathers rise from a wreath of flowers on her head. A man in back view (right) wears tight pantaloons tied below the calf, others wear loose trousers. There is a hanging chandelier with candles."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Questionable attribution to William Heath from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue., Later state; former plate number "391" has been replaced with a new plate number, and beginning of imprint statement has been burnished from plate., Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: Pub. June 6th, 1817, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London. Cf. No. 12938 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9., Plate numbered "193" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Also issued separately., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge.
"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.
"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
Men of fashion waltz with elegant courtesans in a magnificent pilastered room. A large orchestra is on a platform (right). Harriette Wilson (right) takes Stockdale's arm. Many names are given in the text of the published state. See British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Sherwood, Jones & Co.
Subject (Name):
Wilson, Harriette, 1786-1846.
Subject (Topic):
Ballroom dancing, Balls (Parties), Courtesans, Couples, and Orchestras
Depicts a semi-nude seated female figure holding a caduceus before whom dance three putti, while two putti in the air above approach bearing a basket and grape vine. Within an oval border of olive and oak leaves resting on a pedestal containing the text
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on one side., and Imperfect; trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and London (England)
Subject (Name):
Wilkes, John, 1725-1797
Subject (Topic):
Balls (Parties), Caduceus, Children dancing, Cornucopias, and Social life and customs
This ticket entitles the bearer to be admitted to the ball at Cordwainers Hall
Description:
Title from item., Entirely engraved; illustrated with the arms of the Company of Cordwainers at top, the image and text enclosed within a decorative border., Printed in blue ink., Text at bottom: NB. You are paricularly requested to order your carriage to enter Distaff Lane from the Old Change., Form completed in manuscript, with the date and time of the ball specified as 18 October 1827 at 9 o'clock; signed at bottom by the Master "Josh. Newson.", Mounted to 27.2 x 21 cm; mounted above is a small (sheet 42 x 46 mm) hand-colored etching of the arms of the Company of Cordwainers., and Mounted opposite page 532 in volume 4 part 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Malcolm, J.P. Londinium redivivum, or, An antient history and modern description of London.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Worshipful Company of Cordwainers of the City of London.
Title engraved below image., At top of sheet, above imprint statement: New lady's magazine., Sheet trimmed to within plate mark on right and left sides., Not in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: St. James's Palace.
Publisher:
Published by Alexr. Hogg at the Kings Arms No. 16 Paternoster Row
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, and Charlotte, Queen, Consort of Frederick I, King of Württemberg, 1766-1828
Title supplied by catalogue raisonné., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., In pencil lower right margin: A Besnard., Plate VII from Les Femmes., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Rich people, Balls (Parties), and Carriages & coaches
Men of fashion waltz with elegant courtesans in a magnificent pilastered room. A large orchestra is on a platform (right). Harriette Wilson (right) takes Stockdale's arm. Many names are given in the text of the published state. See British Museum catalogue
Description:
Title, printmaker, and imprint from published state., Plate etched for: Westmacott, C.M. English spy. London : Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825-1826., For published state see: No. 15201 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Ms. note in pencil on front: Page 48, Vol. 2. Watermark 1824., and Watermarked: J. Whatman Turkey Mill 1824.
Publisher:
Sherwood, Jones & Co.
Subject (Name):
Wilson, Harriette, 1786-1846.
Subject (Topic):
Ballroom dancing, Balls (Parties), Courtesans, Couples, and Orchestras
