Research Catalog

Title

The famous Dutch woman [graphic] / M Lauron delin ; P. Tempest exc : cum privilegio.

Author

Tempest, Pierce, 1653-1717.

Publication

[1711?]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Laroon, Marcellus, 1653-1702.
• Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division. fnd

Description

1 print : etching, engraving, b&w; 25 x 17 cm.

Summary

Full-length depiction of a female rope walker, holding a balancing pole. Dressed in a male costume of doublet and hose, she is poised on her right foot, her left foot raised slightly behind her.

Donor/Sponsor

Dance Committee Purchase Fund.

Alternative Title

• Fameuse Hollandoise danceuse de corde
• Famosa donna Thedesca

Subjects

• Tightrope walking
• Dance > England > 17th century
• Rope dancing
• Engravings

Genre/Form

Engravings.

Note

• Caption title.
• At lower right: 64.

Funding (note)

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

Source (note)

• Dramatis Personae

Biography (note)

• This image was originally published in The cryes of the city of London drawne after the life, published by Pierce Tempest in 1688. In that edition, however, the prints were not numbered (as may be seen on the version posted on the British Museum's online catalog). This print, which is numbered 64, probably comes from the second edition, published by Henry Overton in 1711.
• The artist Marcel or Marcellus Lauron came from The Hague to England, where his last name was anglicized as Laroon. Also known as "Old Laroon" to distinguish him from his son, who had the same name, he is said to have specialized in low-life genre scenes. In its online catalog, the Victoria and Albert Museum, which also holds copies of this image, speculates that it may depict a German rope dancer who appeared at London's Bartholomew Fair (a source of popular entertainment), since the word "Deutsch" (German) was often corrupted into "Dutch." In a second print from the The cryes of the city of London, held by the British Museum, the rope walker is depicted falling off the rope.

Call Number

*MGZFX Tem P Dut 1

OCLC

825067738

Author

Tempest, Pierce, 1653-1717. Engraver

Title

The famous Dutch woman [graphic] / M Lauron delin ; P. Tempest exc : cum privilegio.

Imprint

[1711?]

Funding

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

Biography

This image was originally published in The cryes of the city of London drawne after the life, published by Pierce Tempest in 1688. In that edition, however, the prints were not numbered (as may be seen on the version posted on the British Museum's online catalog). This print, which is numbered 64, probably comes from the second edition, published by Henry Overton in 1711.

The artist Marcel or Marcellus Lauron came from The Hague to England, where his last name was anglicized as Laroon. Also known as "Old Laroon" to distinguish him from his son, who had the same name, he is said to have specialized in low-life genre scenes. In its online catalog, the Victoria and Albert Museum, which also holds copies of this image, speculates that it may depict a German rope dancer who appeared at London's Bartholomew Fair (a source of popular entertainment), since the word "Deutsch" (German) was often corrupted into "Dutch." In a second print from the The cryes of the city of London, held by the British Museum, the rope walker is depicted falling off the rope.

Local Note

Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

For a restrike of this print, probably made in the early nineteenth century, see: *MGZFB Dut P 1.

Source

Purchase; Dramatis Personae, 2010.

Connect to:

NYPL Digital Collections

Local Subject

Rope dancing.

Added Author

Laroon, Marcellus, 1653-1702. Artist

Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Funder

Research Call Number

*MGZFX Tem P Dut 1