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Additional authors

1. Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603.

Description

1. Engraving in line border; image including legends: 22.8 x 29.5 cm.

Subject

1. Prints (Graphic arts) > 17th century
2. Folk dancing > Belgium
3. Egg dances
4. Costume > Belgium

Call number

1. *MGZFD Gal J Egg 1

Note

1. Lower center: M[arten] de Vos invent. Lower right: Joan Galle excud.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Reproduced in Lillian Moore, Images of the dance [1965] p. 9.#

Author

1. Galle, Jan, 1600-1676.

Title

1. [Egg dance.

Imprint

1. Antwerp?, 164-?]

Local note

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

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Local subject

1. Egg dances.
2. Folk dancing -- Belgium.
3. Prints (Graphic arts) -- 17th century.

Added author

1. Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603.

Research call number

1. *MGZFD Gal J Egg 1