Research Catalog

Title

Waltzing in courtship [graphic].

Author

Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830.

Publication

[London] : William Holland, 1815.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Holland, William, active 1782-1817.
• Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division. fnd

Description

1 print : etching, hand-colored; 24 x 19 cm., on mount 30 x 24 cm.

Summary

Caricature of a short deformed man dancing with a woman taller than himself, whose graceful body is topped by the head of a pig. Both are fashionably dressed, the woman with plumes in her hat that make her taller still.

Donor/Sponsor

Dance Committee Purchase Fund.

Subjects

• Caricatures
• Ballroom dancing > Caricatures and cartoons
• Ballroom dancing > 19th century > Caricatures and cartoons
• Waltz (Dance) > Caricatures and cartoons

Genre/Form

Caricatures.

Indexed In (note)

• Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, Division I, Political and personal satires

Funding (note)

• Purchased with funds from the Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

Biography (note)

• The British Museum, which holds a copy of this print, identifies the man as Lord Kirkcudbright; he has also been identified as a caricature of Lord George. The woman is supposedly based on an actual pig-faced woman of gentle birth, said to be a resident of Manchester Square or Grosvenor Square in London.

Source of Description (note)

• According to the British Museum's online catalog, this print was made by the etcher Charles Williams.

Call Number

*MGZFX Wil C Wal 1

OCLC

825067724

Author

Williams, Charles, active 1797-1830. Attributed name

Title

Waltzing in courtship [graphic].

Imprint

[London] : William Holland, 1815.

Indexed In:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, Division I, Political and personal satires, vol. 9, p. 602, no. 12630.

Funding

Purchased with funds from the Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

Note

According to the British Museum's online catalog, this print was made by the etcher Charles Williams.

Biography

The British Museum, which holds a copy of this print, identifies the man as Lord Kirkcudbright; he has also been identified as a caricature of Lord George. The woman is supposedly based on an actual pig-faced woman of gentle birth, said to be a resident of Manchester Square or Grosvenor Square in London.

Local Note

Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

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Local Subject

Waltz (Dance) -- Caricatures and cartoons.

Added Author

Holland, William, active 1782-1817. Publisher

Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Funder

Research Call Number

*MGZFX Wil C Wal 1