A young couple face each other as they begin to dance in a hall lighted by a wall sconce with a mirror and a chandelier. Behind them an older woman looks on.
Description:
Title from caption below image., Publication information from unverified data from local card catalog record., Four lines of verse below title: "While graceful Marian leads the gay Quadrille", "What new sensations Henry's boson fill," "An introduction gained, the youth advances" "And hope she's disengaged the two next dances.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Bowing, Clothing & dress, Couples, Dance parties, and Etiquette
"One of a pair, with the same signatures and imprint, see No. 12929. Two couples dance with vigour, holding hands in a line, the ladies facing right, the men left. Other couples stand. Fashionable dress is burlesqued, the ladies with very décolletée and short-waisted dress, with short skirts, very wide, flounced, and projecting. One has a grotesque coiffure, hair strained into a pyramid, bound with ribbon, and topped by an absurd flower. The dandified men wear knee-breeches or tight pantaloons with high collars; hair cropped on the neck and projecting like an inverted basin. The room is bare except for festooned curtains."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Watermark: J. Whatman.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 4th, 1817 by H. Humphrey 27 St. James's Street
Subject (Topic):
Couples, Dance parties, Dancers, Dandies, and British
"One of a set (coloured) by Williams, all with the same imprint (Nos. 12933-6). An adaptation of No. 12926. Two sets of four dance as before but the ladies and their partners stand alternately, instead of two ladies being together in the middle of each row. A lady playing a harp sits on the settee, a man stands beside her. A man facing the fireplace ties his cravat; another reaches up with a cane, perhaps to adjust the gas which issues from two serpents decorating the top of the mirror, on which stand also two lamps with globes and chimneys. In place of the chinoiserie chandeliers against the wall are two pictures, one of a couple turning together (as in No. 12925) against an architectural background, one of three naked savages posturing outside their tents. There is a hanging chandelier with gas or oil lamps with globes and chimneys."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Practicing Quadrille dancing at home for fear of accidents at the ball
Description:
Title from caption below image., Printmaker identified in the British Museum online catalogue., and Plate numbered "No. 4" in upper left corner.
Title from item., Date from British Museum website., Backhouse was a publisher located in Wells, Somerset. Ackermann was located in London., Impression has been trimmed, with loss of imprint. Publisher information supplied from British Museum copy., Curator's note: Gilman dates print 1848. From Royal Psychiatric Society., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Hospitals, Great Britain.
Publisher:
Published by Backhouse Wells & Ackermann & Co. No. 96. Strand
Title from published caption., Published in The New Yorker, 25 January, 1936, Signature in crayon at lower right., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
