"Two couples in evening dress dance in a carpeted room with curtained windows, the promenade being a figure in a dance, apparently a waltz."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., Reissue. Publication year from British Museum catalogue., Monogram comprised of an elaborate double 'X' precedes Cruikshank's signature., and Publication year erased from sheet.
Title from item., First part of title etched above image, the second half below., Date transcribed from card catalog., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mounted on 29 x 38 cm.
Publisher:
Depose a la Bibliot. Nat. Rue Montmartre No. 132 et a Londres chez H. Humphrey St. James Street No. 27
Six couples, some awkwardly matched, dance with varying skill in a ballroom
Description:
Title etched below image, above a poem in letterpress, four stanzas in two columns., First line of the poem: Whilst Wellington, with patriot zeal, devotes himself from morn till night ..., Sheet trimmed mostly to plate mark along the top and sides., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Ill-matched couples dance facing each other: all are burlesqued. On the right a very tall man watches the assembly. The room is decorated with two sets of curtains and a large wall sconce lti with candles
Description:
Title from caption below image., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Plate numbered "394" in upper right corner., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
Publisher:
Pub. June 8, 1817 by T. Tegg 111 Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Couples, Dance, Dandies, British, and Waltz
V. 3. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Ill-matched couples dance facing each other; all are burlesqued. On the right a very tall man watches the assembly. The room is decorated with two sets of curtains and a large wall sconce lit with candles
Description:
Title etched below image., Questionably attributed to William Heath in local card catalog record., Later state; former plate number "394" has been replaced with a new plate number, and imprint statement has been completely burnished from plate., Publication information inferred from earlier state with the imprint: Pub. June 8, 1817, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside. Cf. Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 817.06.08.01+., Plate numbered "189" in upper right corner., Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Leaf 43 in volume 3.
Publisher:
Thomas Tegg
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Topic):
Clothing & dress, Couples, Dance, Dandies, British, and Waltz
