Ballroom dancers
- Title
- Ballroom dancers [graphic].
- Published by
- [18--?]
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Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance | FormatStill image | AccessSupervised use | Call number*MGZFX Bal 15-22 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance |
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- Description
- 8 prints : lithograph, wood engraving, etching, color or b&w; 25 x 34 cm. or smaller.
- Summary
- Collection culled from a variety of sources, chiefly dating to the first half of the nineteenth century. Most items have been trimmed of their captions and/or publication data, making identification difficult. The prints in this collection portray well-dressed men and women performing various ballroom dances, chiefly against plain backgrounds. Most depict two to four figures; a notable exception is the untitled print signed P. Brunellière, which contains two rows of figures. At top left is a vignette of a couple in a domestic interior, accompanied by a fiddler. In the top row of figures are seven men and women, executing positions of the feet much like those of classical ballet. The bottom row starts at left with a man bowing, hat in hand, and continues with one, two, and four dancing couples, the last arranged in a square formation, possibly part of a quadrille.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Lithographs.
- Wood engravings.
- Etchings.
- Contents
- La mazurka; Journal des demoiselles, edition belge -- [Dancing couple; with penciled notation] "Potiphar Papers," Amer., 1852 [?] / JG ; N. Orr, N.Y. -- [Woman with man in military uniform] -- La polka -- [The first quadrille at Almack's; colored etching without caption] -- A quadrille at Almack's, 1815 [same image; b&w wood engraving from an unidentified periodical] -- [Man with two women] / G.B. Black [?] -- [Two rows of dancers] / P. Brunellière fecit.
- Call number
- *MGZFX Bal 15-22
- Note
- Title devised by cataloger.
- Source (note)
- Lincoln Kirstein.
- Biography (note)
- George William Curtis's Potiphar papers (1853), which first appeared in the New York-based Putnam's Magazine, satirized fashionable society. The illustration in this collection was engraved by Nathaniel Orr.
- Almack's Assembly Rooms in London became famous during the Regency period as the venue for fashionable and exclusive balls.
- Title
- Ballroom dancers [graphic].
- Imprint
- [18--?]
- Biography
- George William Curtis's Potiphar papers (1853), which first appeared in the New York-based Putnam's Magazine, satirized fashionable society. The illustration in this collection was engraved by Nathaniel Orr.
- Almack's Assembly Rooms in London became famous during the Regency period as the venue for fashionable and exclusive balls.
- Local note
- Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
- Source
- [Woman with man in military uniform] Gift; Lincoln Kirstein.
- Connect to:
- Local subject
- Mazurka (Dance)
- Added author
- Brunellière, P. (Prosper-Aimé-Marie), 1803- Artist
- Orr, Nathaniel. Engraver
- Kirstein, Lincoln, 1907-1996. Donor
- Research call number
- *MGZFX Bal 15-22