- Additional Authors
- Thomas MacLean (Firm)
- Description
- Etching, colored, plate mark; 26 x 37.5 cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- Caricature mainly satirizing the attire and hair styles of the day. Two couples performing a quadrille figure, "La Poule." The dancers extend their right hand toward their respective partner. One man is wearing dancing pumps with bows, the other boots with spurs. The women are wearing dresses with beribboned puffed shoulders and enormous coiffures.
- Four lines of verse: Nature, I thought, perform'd too mean a parte, Forming her movements to the rules of art; and vex'd I found the dandy barbers hand/Had o'er the dancers' heads too great command.
- Call Number
- *MGZFD Qua 5
- OCLC
- NYPY847006409-F
- Title
Quadrille - evening fashions dedicated to the HEADS of the nation.
- Imprint
London, published by Tho's McLean, 26 Haymarket, 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 5