Volume 2, page 55. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
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still image
Abstract:
"A strip design of ten couples in different stages of the minuet, All dance in silence; the expressions of the male dancers denote anxiety, determination, or complacency. All are intended to be ugly, or awkward, or both, but the figures have charm, an...
Description:
Title etched below image on second and third plates.
Publisher:
Publish'd June 25th, 1787, by W. Dickinson, engraver, Bond Street
A satire on the Peace of Amiens between France and England, with caricatures of national figures (Holland, Russia, Britain, Spain, Turkey and Prussia) dancing to Napoleon's tune. Napoleon stands at right with pipe and tambourine singing 'Ah ci-ira, ci...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub'd by P. Roberts, 28 Middle-row, Holborn
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Subject (Topic):
Ethnic stereotypes, Pipes (Smoking), Pipes (Musical instruments), Tambourines, and Dance
"Bergami and the Princess of Wales dance vigorously, hand in hand, her right hand in his left; he flourishes his peaked and tasselled courier's cap and heavy whip. He wears smart postilion's dress with jack-boots, as in No. 14176. The Princess is very...
Alternative Title:
Love at first sight
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron
"Bergami and the Princess of Wales dance vigorously, hand in hand, her right hand in his left; he flourishes his peaked and tasselled courier's cap and heavy whip. He wears smart postilion's dress with jack-boots, as in No. 14176. The Princess is very...
Alternative Title:
Love at first sight
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852, printmaker
Published / Created:
1834.
Call Number:
Maidment G761 no. 12 Box 2
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In the top scene, three men (King William IV, Duke of Wellington, and an unidentified figure) in a variety of dress stand arm in arm with a woman (Queen Adelaide) wearing a feather in her hat. They appear to be amused by the commotion next to them in ...
Description:
Titles from text below images.
Publisher:
J. Kendrick, 54 Leicester Square
Subject (Name):
William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Adelaide, Queen, consort of William IV, King of Great Britain, 1792-1849, and Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852
Subject (Topic):
Caricatures and cartoons, John Bull (Symbolic character), Politicians, Dance, Singing, Chants, politicians, dances (performing arts compositions), dances (performance events), chants, and dance (performing arts genre)
A man wearing in a nightcap leans out a window from the upper story of his cottage and aims a blunderbuss at a ghostly sprite who dances in the yard outside his front door. The man's face is contorted with anger and concentration as he points his gun
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. Octr. 1, 1792, by W. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
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1
Resource Type:
still image
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"In a bare room with a raftered roof couples are energetically dancing, holding hands behind their backs, or above their heads. The women, with one exception, are young and handsome, the men ugly and plebeian. A seated fiddler plays with closed eyes (...
V. 4. Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"In a bare room with a raftered roof couples are energetically dancing, holding hands behind their backs, or above their heads. The women, with one exception, are young and handsome, the men ugly and plebeian. A seated fiddler plays with closed eyes (...
