- Description
- Engraving, colored; image with text: 22.5 x 15 cm.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Lincoln Kirstein Collection.
- Note
- Lower center: Gio. flor. for.
- Two scenes from the wedding of the hunchbacked dwarf. Upper illustration: Dwarf, his wife and guests around table; food cooking on a spit, a cat and dog on the floor searching for food. Lower illustration: dwarf dancing with his unattractive wife to the accompaniment of a viola da gamba, bagpipe, lute, tambourine, and flute. She holds her right hand in his, lifting her dress with her left hand.
- Possibly an eighteenth-century engraving after a woodcut book illustration by Giovanni Floreani.
- Call Number
- *MGZFD Flo G 1
- OCLC
- NYPY737047705-F
- Author
Floreani, Giovanni, 1486-1540.
- Title
Sposalizio del gobbo nan.
- Imprint
[Udine? 153-?]
- Local Note
This item may be offsite for digitization. For additional information please contact dance@nypl.org.
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
Dance -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Prints (Graphic arts) -- Social dancing -- 16th century.
Social dancing -- 16th century.
- Research Call Number
*MGZFD Flo G 1