- Additional Authors
- Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817.
- Description
- Etching, colored, plate mark; 21.5 x 25.8 cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- Lower left: G. Cruikshank fect.
- A man crashes to the floor, his feet out behind him, as he clutches his partner's dress. The shocked spectators consist of women with low-cut, revealing dresses and escorts with absurdly high collars; two leering musicians (a harpist and a fiddler) on a raised platform at left.
- Reproduced in Dance magazine, April 1951, p. 20.
- Call Number
- *MGZFD Cru G Vis 1
- OCLC
- NYPY847006447-F
- Author
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.
- Title
Vis à vis - accidents in quadrille dancing.
- Imprint
[London] pub'd by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street, April 15th, 1817.
- Local Note
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- Connect to:
- 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 Vis 1