- Additional Authors
- Description
- Etching, colored; image, including frame-border, 23.8 x 34.5 cm.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Gift of Lillian Moore.
- Note
- Lower left: R. C. [i.e., Isaac Robert Cruikshank] fecit. Lower right: M. H. A satirical print prompted by Mercandotti's rejections and eventual acceptance of Hughes Ball's offers of financial security and matrimony.
- Outdoor setting. Left to right: Hughes Ball holding a check in one hand and a bag of money in the other ("Can you resist these golden charms ... "). A kneeling woman holds a broom or stick over which Mercandotti leaps ("The Ball is yours, lose not one moment to take the leap ... "). The young dancer, leaping in the air, reaches for the check ("Such tempting arms, to them I'll fly for life"). The Earl of Fife, generally believed to be Mercandotti's father, dances a jig ("I am glad you are gone, tol lol la ... ").
- On the ground is an abridged version of Mercandotti's note to John Ebers, manager of the King's Theatre, in which she notified him of her imminent retirement.
- Call Number
- *MGZFB Mer M C 1
- OCLC
- NYPY767027456-F
- Author
Mercandotti, Maria.
- Title
M-RC-N.TI'S leap from the Opera, or the Ballet turned into a Ball.
- Imprint
[London] pub'd by G. Humphrey, 24 St. James St. & 74 New Bond St. [1823]
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
Prints (Graphic arts) -- Ballet -- 19th century.
Ballet -- England -- 19th century.
Dance -- Caricatures and cartoons.
- Added Author
Humphrey, G., active approximately 1820.
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856.
- Research Call Number
*MGZFB Mer M C 1