Operatical reform, or, La dance a l'eveque [graphic].

Published/Created:

[London]
Pubd. March 14th, 1798, by H. Humphrey, St. Jamess [sic] Street
[14 March 1798]

Copyright Date:

[14 March 1798]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 26 x 37 cm

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 7, no. 9298
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 253
Wright, T. Historical and descriptive acc

Notes:

Title etched below image, in lower left.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Four lines of verse in two columns below image: 'Tis hard for such new fangled orthodox rules, that our opera-troop should be blam'd ...
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Theatre: stage -- Opera: dancers -- Musical instruments -- Stage lighting -- Devil -- Dancing -- Newspapers: reference to Morning Herald.
Old Print Shop; March 1961; Acquisitions no.: 961-3-1-262.

Abstract:

"Three opera dancers, holding a garland of roses, are dressed alike in short transparent petticoats partly covered by a shorter apron. The centre dancer holds out her left leg horizontally . Mme Rose [Parisot] is in back view, her sharp features in profile to the right. On each side of the stage is a column on the plinth of which stands a figure: (left) a satyr holding a mask; (right) a woman wearing a clumsy undergarment, in the attitude of the Venus dei Medici. In front of the stage are the musical instruments of the orchestra, including a violin on which is a cap perhaps intended for a bonnet-rouge. ..."--British Museum online catalogue.

Variant Titles:

Dance a l'eveque

Associated Names:

Gillray, James, 1756-1815 [Printmaker]
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817 [Publisher]

Topics:

Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley
Dance
Dancers
Didelot, Marie Rose Paul, -1803
Harvey, Francis
Musical instruments
Operas & operettas
Riviere & Son
Satyrs (Greek mythology) depicted
Theatrical productions

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- London -- 1798
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1798

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

798.03.14.02+

Orbis Record:

8161623

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr09208

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10941138

PID:

digcoll:950653