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[Egg dance.

Title
[Egg dance.
Author
Galle, Jan, 1600-1676.
Publication
Antwerp?, 164-?]

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Additional Authors
Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603.
Description
Engraving in line border; image including legends: 22.8 x 29.5 cm.
Subjects
Note
  • Lower center: M[arten] de Vos invent. Lower right: Joan Galle excud.
  • On plate, at top: Has ducunt choreas, qui bacchanalia vivunt. Four line poem in French, below at left. Four line poem in Dutch at right.
  • An outdoor village festival; at center, a stocky peasant trips over and around a cluster of eggs. Musicians, couples drinking and embracing. Dancers in the distance.
  • Reproduced in Lillian Moore, Images of the dance [1965] p. 9.#
Call Number
*MGZFD Gal J Egg 1
OCLC
NYPY777004032-F
Author
Galle, Jan, 1600-1676.
Title
[Egg dance.
Imprint
Antwerp?, 164-?]
Local Note
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Local Subject
Egg dances.
Folk dancing -- Belgium.
Prints (Graphic arts) -- 17th century.
Added Author
Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603.
Research Call Number
*MGZFD Gal J Egg 1
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