print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1935,0522.7.184
- Title
- Object: Les Graces de Chesterfield. or, Quadrille Dancing pour la Pratique
- Description
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One of a set (coloured) by Williams, all with the same imprint (Nos. 12933-6). An adaptation of No. 12925. The stout man dancing between two ladies is in military uniform with a large sabre. The room is altered by the addition of a side wall (left) to which the fireplace is transferred. In its place is the square piano under a large mirror. All the figures are altered; a lady in an arm-chair with a man leaning over her has been added. Elaborate gas or oil lighting replaces candles: a hanging chandelier with a circle of globes with chimneys, with similar lamps in brackets on a glass over the chimney-piece, which is surmounted by a standing lamp. There are three whole length portraits of dancers striking attitudes, two being 'Mde H[i]llisburgh' and 'Monr Vestris'.
Plate numbered 3.
May 1817
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1817
- Dimensions
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Height: 223 millimetres
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Width: 333 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description from M. Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', IX, 1949)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1935
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1935,0522.7.184
