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Grown gentlemen taught to dance, engraved after an original picture of Mr. John Collett, in the possession of Mr. Smith.

Title: Grown gentlemen taught to dance, engraved after an original picture of Mr. John Collett, in the possession of Mr. Smith.
Author: Collet, John, 1725-1780.
Publication: [London] printed for J'n Smith, no. 35, in Cheapside... 20th Aug't 1768.

Description

Engraving; plate mark: 36 x 26.5 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Lincoln Kirstein Collection.

Subjects

Note

A short, squat dancing master partners a tall male pupil. A musician seated at left accompanies them on the violin. A man sits on a bench at back, his feet in a turned out position. Two cats and a dog play in the foreground. On the wall is a print or painting of "Madame Elastique," almost certainly Anne Auretti.
A more detailed version of the engraving published the previous year by T. Bradford, *MGZFD Col J Gro 1.
Reproduced in Lillian Moore, Images of the Dance, 1965, p. 21.

Call Number

*MGZFD Col J Gro 2

OCLC

NYPY867003332-F

Author

Collet, John, 1725-1780.

Title

Grown gentlemen taught to dance, engraved after an original picture of Mr. John Collett, in the possession of Mr. Smith.

Imprint

[London] printed for J'n Smith, no. 35, in Cheapside... 20th Aug't 1768.

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Local Subject

Prints (Graphic arts) -- Social dancing -- 18th century.

Dance -- Caricatures and cartoons.

Research Call Number

*MGZFD Col J Gro 2