Research Catalog

Title

Images of ballroom dancing [graphic].

Publication

[1817-1835]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856.
• Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.
• Egan, Pierce, 1772-1849.

Description

• 1 print : etching, hand-colored; 27 x 42 cm.
• 2 prints : etching, b&w ;
• 1 print : aquatint, hand-colored ;

Summary

Representations of ballroom dancing in England between 1817 and 1826, captured in etchings by the brothers George Cruikshank and Robert (who signed his prints I.R. for Isaac Robert) Cruikshank. With the exception of the print titled Breaking up, the images are presented with minor exaggeration of physical features, expressions, or positions. In Breaking up, which depicts a children's dance, a number of the participants (both adults and children) are caricatures, among them the dancing master with his fiddle.

Alternative Title

• Breaking up
• Promenade
• Highest life in London. Tom & Jerry sporting a toe among the Corinthians at Almacks in the west
• Tom & Jerry sporting a toe among the Corinthians at Almacks in the west
• Quadrilles--practising for fear of accidents!

Subjects

• Ballroom dancing > Caricatures and cartoons
• Ballroom dancing > England > 19th century
• Child dancers
• Etchings
• Caricatures

Genre/Form

• Etchings.
• Caricatures.

Note

• Title devised by cataloger.

Source (note)

• Estate of Josephine Butler.

Biography (note)

• Tom & Jerry sporting a toe was published as part of Pierce Egan's Life in London: or, The day and night scenes of Jerry Hawthorne, esq., and his elegant friend Corinthian Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic, the Oxonian, in their rambles and sprees through the metropolis. La promenade was originally issued as part of a set of four titled The dancing lesson by G. Humphrey in 1822-1825. The original publisher's name and address was erased and replaced by that of McLean. Breaking up was originally issued as part of a set of four titled Holiday scenes by S. Knight, 1826. The original publisher's name and address was erased and replaced by that of McLean.

Contents

Quadrilles--practising for fear of accidents! [London, J. Sidebotham, March 22th, 1817] / I.R. Cruikshank fect. -- Highest life in London. Tom & Jerry sporting a toe among the Corinthians at Almacks in the west [London, Sherwood, Neely, & Jones, May 1, 1821] / drawn & engraved by I.R. & G. Cruikshank -- La promenade [London, Thomas McLean, 1835 ] / etched by G. Cruik[shan]k -- Breaking up [London, Thomas McLean, 1835] / G. Cruikshank fec.

Call Number

*MGZFX Bal 1-4

OCLC

825066543

Title

Images of ballroom dancing [graphic].

Imprint

[1817-1835]

Biography

Tom & Jerry sporting a toe was published as part of Pierce Egan's Life in London: or, The day and night scenes of Jerry Hawthorne, esq., and his elegant friend Corinthian Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic, the Oxonian, in their rambles and sprees through the metropolis. La promenade was originally issued as part of a set of four titled The dancing lesson by G. Humphrey in 1822-1825. The original publisher's name and address was erased and replaced by that of McLean. Breaking up was originally issued as part of a set of four titled Holiday scenes by S. Knight, 1826. The original publisher's name and address was erased and replaced by that of McLean.

Local Note

Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

For another copy of Highest life in London, with different coloration, see: *MGZFD Cru G Hig 1.

For a colored version of La promenade, see: *MGZFD Cru G Pro.

Source

Gift; Estate of Josephine Butler.

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Added Author

Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856. Etcher

Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878. Etcher

Egan, Pierce, 1772-1849. Associated name

Research Call Number

*MGZFX Bal 1-4