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Dos à dos - accidents in quadrille dancing.

Title: Dos à dos - accidents in quadrille dancing.
Author: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.
Publication: [London] pub'd by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, March 4th, 1817.

Additional Authors

Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817.

Description

Etching, colored, full margins, plate mark; 21.4 x 26.5 cm.

Note

Lower left: G. Cruikshank fect.
Three couples watch as a fourth couple, advancing back to back, walk into each other. Five musicians in a box look down on the proceedings.
Reproduced in Dance magazine, April 1951, p. 20.

Call Number

*MGZFD Cru G Dos 1

OCLC

NYPY847006435-F

Author

Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.

Title

Dos à dos - accidents in quadrille dancing.

Imprint

[London] pub'd by H. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street, March 4th, 1817.

Local Note

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Local Subject

Quadrilles.

Musicians.

Prints (Graphic arts) -- Social dancing -- 19th century.

Dance -- Caricatures and cartoons.

Social dancing -- 19th century.

Added Author

Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817.

Research Call Number

*MGZFD Cru G Dos 1