Research Catalog

Title

Josephine Butler collection of dance prints from Le bon genre [graphic].

Publication

[1810?-1930]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Dutailly, active 1810-1812.
• Gillray, James, 1756-1815.
• Pasquier, active 1804.
• Butler, Josephine.

Description

• 1 print : etching, engraving, hand-colored; 30 x 40 cm., plate mark 24 x 30 cm.
• 1 print : etching, hand-colored ;
• 3 prints : photolithograph?, color ;

Summary

Images of 19th-century ballroom dancing, some verging on caricature. The originals were published singly between 1801 and 1822, and reissued as a collection under the title Observations sur les modes et les usages de Paris pour servir d'explication aux caricatures publiées sous le titre de Bon genre... (Paris, 1817; second edition, 1827). Three of the prints in this collection are leaves from a facsimile edition titled Trente-neuf aquarelles originales de Harriet, Pasquier, Garbizza, Dutailly, Garnerey et Lanté pour Le bon genre (Paris, 1930).

Alternative Title

Bon genre.

Subjects

• Etchings
• Engravings
• Ballroom dancing > 19th century

Genre/Form

• Engravings.
• Etchings.

Note

• Title devised by cataloger.

Source (note)

• Estate of Josephine Butler.

Biography (note)

• The British Museum, which holds a copy of La walse with different coloration, identifies it as a copy of a French print.
• Josephine DeNatale Butler, 1911-1996, was a dance educator, historian, and author. She began her career in fashion design, but in 1936 she and her husband Albert Butler founded the Albert Butler School of Dance, which she directed for fifty years. They also collaborated on the monumental Encyclopedia of social dancing, versions of which first appeared in the late 1960s. In 1970 she created an archive of social dancing, encompassing print materials, moving images, and other memorabilia, at the Dance Collection (today known as the Jerome Robbins Dance Division) of New York Public Library. These prints were among a collection of additional materials donated to the Library by her estate in 1996, selections from which appeared in the Library's exhibition Cotillion to cakewalk: social dance prints, presented from May 19-Sept. 13, 1997.

Contents

La walse; Le bon genre, 1810; depose à la Bibliot. Nat. ... et à Londres, chez H. Humphrey... / [James Gillray, artist] -- Mademoiselle Busc et Monsieur Corset. Le bon genre, no. 111 [ca. 1822; from the second edition] -- La dansomanie; Le bon genre, planche no. 12 [from the facsimile edition, 1930] / dessiné par Pasquier à Paris, en 1804 -- La poule; Le bon genre, planche no. 43 [from the facsimile edition, 1930] / par Dutailly -- La leçon de danse; Le bon genre, aquarelle non publiée [from the facsimile edition, 1930] / attribué à Pasquier.

Call Number

*MGZFX Bon 1-5

OCLC

825113685

Title

Josephine Butler collection of dance prints from Le bon genre [graphic].

Imprint

[1810?-1930]

Biography

The British Museum, which holds a copy of La walse with different coloration, identifies it as a copy of a French print.

Josephine DeNatale Butler, 1911-1996, was a dance educator, historian, and author. She began her career in fashion design, but in 1936 she and her husband Albert Butler founded the Albert Butler School of Dance, which she directed for fifty years. They also collaborated on the monumental Encyclopedia of social dancing, versions of which first appeared in the late 1960s. In 1970 she created an archive of social dancing, encompassing print materials, moving images, and other memorabilia, at the Dance Collection (today known as the Jerome Robbins Dance Division) of New York Public Library. These prints were among a collection of additional materials donated to the Library by her estate in 1996, selections from which appeared in the Library's exhibition Cotillion to cakewalk: social dance prints, presented from May 19-Sept. 13, 1997.

Local Note

Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

For other copies of La dansomanie, La poule, and La leçon de danse, see: (S) *MGTI-Res. ++ 75-835.

For a twentieth-century copy of Mademoiselle Busc et Monsieur Corset, with different coloration, see: *MGZFD Bon 6.

For an uncolored version of La walse, numbered 569, see: *MGZFD Gil J C 2.

Source

Gift; Estate of Josephine Butler.

Connect to:

NYPL Digital Collections

Added Author

Dutailly, active 1810-1812. Artist

Gillray, James, 1756-1815. Artist

Pasquier, active 1804. Artist

Butler, Josephine. Collector

Added Title

Bon genre.

Research Call Number

*MGZFX Bon 1-5