The German dancing master [graphic] = Maitre de ballet allemand / H.I.H.

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Title: The German dancing master [graphic] = Maitre de ballet allemand / H.I.H.
Alternative Title: Maitre de ballet allemand
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Contributor: Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: 1782 April 5
Copyright Date: [5 April 1782]
Publication Place: [London]
Publisher: H. Humphrey, No. 18 New Bond Street
Abstract: Depicts on the right the German dancing master Jansen playing the fiddle, as his pupil faces him with raised right arm and hat in left hand, a smaller youth standing sleepily on the left.
Description: Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Title etched below image.
Extent: 1 print : etching with engraving ; plate mark 18.9 x 24.3 cm, on sheet 24 x 30 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Etchings--England--London--1782.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1782.
Subject (Name): Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817, publisher.
Subject (Topic): Clothing & dress--England--1780-1790.
Dance.
Interiors--England--18th century.
Violins.

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.
Citation: Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 6096
Wright, T. Historical and descriptive account of the caricatures by James Gillray, no. 369
Wright, T. Works of James Gillray, the caricaturist with the history of his life and times, p. 34