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[Dance caricatures]

Title
[Dance caricatures] [graphic].
Author
Hull, Edward, active 1820-1834.
Publication
1816.

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Still imageSupervised use *MGZGA Hul E Dan 1Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
Still imageSupervised use *MGZGA Hul E Dan 2-3Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
Still imageSupervised use *MGZGA Hul E Dan 4-5Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Description
  • 3 drawings : brown ink, watercolor, col.; 22 x 36 cm. or smaller, line border 14 x 23 or smaller.
  • 1 drawing : brown ink, one col. ;
  • 1 print : etching, hand-col. ;
Summary
Satirical images of humans with grotesque features, humans with animal heads, animals with human heads, and other curious creatures. They are engaged in dancing, observing the dance, or providing musical accompaniment. All of the scenes take place outdoors; the tents in the background of one drawing suggest a military camp, while another drawing's casual arrangement of fabric and branches suggests a windbreak at an open-air gathering. In one drawing, couples dance with their arms around each other, perhaps performing the waltz. The uncolored drawing in brown ink, depicting figures on a terrace bordered by a balustrade, has an additional drawing of two figures outside the line border: a male figure holds sheet music and sings the words "Va sempre piano, pia dolce sara mia carina" while a female figure, seen from the neck up, appears to listen.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Drawings.
  • Etchings.
Note
  • Five images in three mats.
  • The etching is signed and dated: Ed. Hull invt. et fecit, 1 May 1816.
  • On the verso of the drawing with tents at background left is a graphite and watercolor drawing of two male figures, one in profile facing left and the other in back view. Although they are similarly dressed and both carry swords, they do not seem to be the same man; one has long hair drawn back into a queue, and holds a bicorne hat and a cane.
Source (note)
  • Lincoln Kirstein.
Biography (note)
  • Edward Hull, a British printmaker and drawing master, was active in London. The British Museum, which holds a print version (hand-colored etching) of the drawing of figures on a terrace, gives his dates of activity as 1816 to 1829.
Call Number
*MGZGA Hul E Dan 1-5
OCLC
778359335
Author
Hull, Edward, active 1820-1834.
Title
[Dance caricatures] [graphic].
Imprint
1816.
Biography
Edward Hull, a British printmaker and drawing master, was active in London. The British Museum, which holds a print version (hand-colored etching) of the drawing of figures on a terrace, gives his dates of activity as 1816 to 1829.
Local Note
Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
Source
Gift; Lincoln Kirstein.
Added Author
Kirstein, Lincoln, 1907-1996. Donor
Research Call Number
*MGZGA Hul E Dan 1-5
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