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The Wapping landlady, l'hotesse des matelots, from the original painting in Vaux-hall garden.

Title: The Wapping landlady, l'hotesse des matelots, from the original painting in Vaux-hall garden.
Author: Truchy, L., 1731-1764.
Publication: London, printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller at no. 53 in Fleet Street [176-?]

Additional Authors

Description

Engraving; 23.2 x 35.2 cm.

Subjects

Note

F. Hayman pinxt., Truchy sculpt.
Depicts an inn in the Wapping district of London. A boy with a cane under his right arm dances in the center of the room to the accompaniment of a seated fiddler. Three spectators stand in the doorway; a woman with pockmarks and a man sit at left.
Possibly the inspiration for Arnold Fischar's ballet The Wapping landlady, premiered at Covent Garden on April 27, 1767.

Call Number

*MGZFD Tru L Wap 1

OCLC

NYPY737040446-F

Author

Truchy, L., 1731-1764.

Title

The Wapping landlady, l'hotesse des matelots, from the original painting in Vaux-hall garden.

Imprint

London, printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller at no. 53 in Fleet Street [176-?]

Local Note

This item may be offsite for digitization. For additional information please contact dance@nypl.org.

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Local Subject

Prints (Graphic arts) -- Social dancing -- 18th century.

Added Author

Hayman, Francis, 1708-1776.

Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794.

Lillian Moore Collection.

Research Call Number

*MGZFD Tru L Wap 1