A long minuet as danced at Bath [graphic]
Found In:
Lewis Walpole Library > A long minuet as danced at Bath [graphic]
17355635
Description
- Title
- A long minuet as danced at Bath [graphic]
- Contributor
-
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Dickinson, William, 1746 or 1747-1823, publisher. - Published / Created
- [25 June 1787]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Publish'd June 25th, 1787, by W. Dickinson, engraver, Bond Street
- Abstract
-
"A strip design of ten couples in different stages of the minuet, All dance in silence; the expressions of the male dancers denote anxiety, determination, or complacency. All are intended to be ugly, or awkward, or both, but the figures have charm, and even in some cases a certain grace. ... None of the men suggests a parson, most are lean and none corpulent by eighteenth-century standards."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a variant state
- Description
-
Title etched below image on second and third plates.
Variant state, lacking the text "Bos, Fur, Sus, atque Sacerdos" above image on second plate. Cf. No. 7229 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6.
Sheets trimmed within plate mark.
A single design on four plates.
Text in Latin below title, etched on second and third plates: Longa Tysonum Minuit Quid Velit et possit rerum concordia discors. Horace.
Mounted on page 55 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Sheet annotated by Horace Walpole in ink beneath Latin text: Tyson was Master of the Ceremonies at Bath. - Provenance
- Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 50, to H.G. Bohn, £7.7.0 [London, 733]; from an undergraduate at King's College, through Scribner's, May 1952, to W.S. Lewis, $225.
- Extent
- 4 prints forming one image : sheets 28 x 64 cm or smaller
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
- Collection Title
- Volume 2, page 55. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
- Collection/Other Creator
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector.
- Collection Date
- [Strawberry Hill], [between 1765 and 1792]
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Satires (Visual works) England 1787
Stipple engravings England London 1787
Engravings England London 1787
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century - Material
- stipple engraving and engraving ; and wove paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
-
Couples
Dance - Subjects
-
Couples
Dance
England > 1787
England > London > 1787
18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 15388224
- Object ID (OID)
- 17355635
Manifest Link
