Minuet la cour [graphic].

Published/Created:

[London]
By T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London
[not before 6 June 1817]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 26 x 36 cm

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Questionable attribution to William Heath from description of earlier state in the British Museum catalogue.
Later state; former plate number "391" has been replaced with a new plate number, and beginning of imprint statement has been burnished from plate.
Date of publication based on complete imprint on earlier state: Pub. June 6th, 1817, by T. Tegg, 111 Cheapside, London. Cf. No. 12938 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 9.
Plate numbered "193" in upper right corner.
Plate from: Woodward, G.M. Caricature magazine, or Hudibrastic mirror. London : Thomas Tegg, [1808?], v. 3.
Also issued separately.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge.
Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xv, p. 47.

Abstract:

"A satire on costume, showing the unsuitability of modern dress to the minuet. A grotesque man bends towards his partner, taking her left hand in his right. The other guests stand or sit. He has a large moustache, a shock of hair, high shirt-collar, short-waisted coat with long tails, and loose striped trousers, tied in above the ankle. His partner has short skirt hanging from just below the breast which she holds up by the hem; towering feathers rise from a wreath of flowers on her head. A man in back view (right) wears tight pantaloons tied below the calf, others wear loose trousers. There is a hanging chandelier with candles."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state.

Associated Names:

Heath, William, 1795-1840 [Printmaker]
Tegg, Thomas, 1776-1845 [Publisher]

Topics:

Balls (Parties)
Chandeliers
Clothing & dress -- England -- 1810-1820
Couples
Dance
Dandies -- Dandies
Johnstone, Henry Arthur
Spectators

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- London -- 1817
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1817

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Source Title:

Caricature magazine, or, Hudibrastic mirror

Call Number:

817.06.06.01+

Orbis Record:

9212429

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr11902

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10967933

PID:

digcoll:974528