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Folk dancing in England and Scotland in nineteenth-century prints

Title: Folk dancing in England and Scotland in nineteenth-century prints [graphic].
Publication: [184-?-185-?]

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Description

4 prints : wood engraving, b&w; 35 x 40 cm. or smaller.

Summary

Illustrations, chiefly from periodicals, depicting folk dancing in various parts of the British Isles.

Uniform Title

Illustrated London news.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Wood engravings.

Note

Title devised by cataloger.

Source (note)

Lillian Moore.
Lincoln Kirstein.

Contents

Highland dancers and pipers; Illustrated London News, June 1, 1844 -- 'Mid the new-mown hay; [caption above image] English songs and melodies, by Charles Mackay and Sir H.R. Bishop; Illustrated London News, July 28, 1855 / E. Evans sc. -- Harvest home [double-page spread]; Illustrated London News, Sept. 25, 1858 / drawn by Godwin -- Old England, [six vignettes, including] 1781, Plough Monday, Dance of Bessy and the clown; 1782, Bringing in the May-pole on May morning; 1783, May Day; 1784, Milk maids' dance, with pile of plate, on May Day; 1783, Playing at bucklers, maids dancing for garlands; 1786, May-pole before St. Andrew Undershaft; [includes related text on the verso]; Old England, no. 66, vol. II, p. 121.

Call Number

*MGZFX Fol 1-4

OCLC

825552005

Title

Folk dancing in England and Scotland in nineteenth-century prints [graphic].

Imprint

[184-?-185-?]

Local Note

Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

Source

Highland dancers and pipers Gift; Lillian Moore.

'Mid the new-mown hay, Harvest home, Old England Gift; Lincoln Kirstein.

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Added Author

Moore, Lillian. Donor

Kirstein, Lincoln, 1907-1996. Donor

Added Title

Illustrated London news.

Research Call Number

*MGZFX Fol 1-4

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