- Additional Authors
- Description
- Aquatint; round within square frame, 15.9 x 15.9 cm., including platemark 20 x 21 cm.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Dance Committee Purchase Fund.
- Note
- Caption: See Plutarch's Laconie apothegms, Vol I, p. 406.
- Full-length to front, Vestris standing high on half-toe on his right leg, left leg extended to the side, both arms raised, hat in right hand, head inclined to his right, on stage; caption beneath him reads (transliterated from ancient Greek): Ton mentoi khenon oyk estin ostis oy. A goose appears in each lower corner.
- A nineteenth-century copy of a print published by Torre April 2, 1781. Original design by George Dance. Engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi and Benedetto Pastorini. For a copy of the earlier print see: *MGZFB Ves Au C 4.
- Funding (note)
- Purchased with funds from the Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
- Call Number
- *MGZFF Ves Au C 3
- OCLC
- NYPY737072544-F
- Author
Vestris, Auguste, 1760-1842.
- Title
A stranger at Sparta standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedoemonian, I do not believe you can do as much; "True (said he) but every goose can" ...
- Imprint
[London, 18--]
- Funding
Purchased with funds from the Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
- Local Note
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- Connect to:
- Local Subject
Dance -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Prints (Graphic arts) -- Ballet -- 18th century.
Ballet -- England -- 18th century.
- Added Author
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815.
Pastorini, Benedetto, 1746-
Dance, George, 1741-1825.
Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Funder
- Research Call Number
*MGZFF Ves Au C 3