- Additional Authors
- Thomas MacLean (Firm)
- Description
- Etching, colored, line border; 20.5 x 33 cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- Caricature (cropped) primarily satirizing the hair styles of the day. Two couples performing a quadrille figure. The dancers are leaning back, their weight on their left foot; their right hand is extended toward their respective partner. The women are wearing towering coiffeures bedecked with flowers and bows.
- A companion print to the etching "Quadrille - evening fashions dedicated to the HEADS of the nation" (*MGZFA Qua 5).
- Four lines of verse by Milton: Sport, that wrinkled care derides/Fashion's showing off besides/Come and trip it as you go/On the light fantastick toe.
- Call Number
- *MGZFD Qua 8
- OCLC
- NYPY847006067-F
- Title
Quadrilles, La Finale.
- Imprint
[London, published by Thomas McLean?, 1827?]
- Local Note
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- Connect to:
- Local Subject
Hairdressing.
Prints (Graphic arts) -- Social dancing -- 19th century.
- Local Subject
Dance -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Quadrilles.
- Added Author
Thomas MacLean (Firm)
- Research Call Number
*MGZFD Qua 8