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Description

1. Lithograph; 17.4 x 25.2 cm.

Call number

1. *MGZFD Sha 4

Note

1. Sheet music cover: Shakers dance, new American dance for piano, music by Geo Denis, op. 99. The interior of a Shaker meeting house, with the men and women of the congregation, in separate ranks, approaching each other in an ecstatic dance.
2. A reversed image and less detailed version of a lithograph first published in New York by Anthony Imbert, ca. 1826. (Cf. Dance index, v. 1, no. 4, 1942, p. 58, for reproduction of Imbert's print.)

Title

1. Shakers dance.

Imprint

1. Bruxelles, Imp. Belge de Musique [1900]

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. Shaker dancing.
2. Religious dance.
3. Prints (Graphic arts) -- 19th century.

Research call number

1. *MGZFD Sha 4