Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Awkward squads studying the graces!! [copy 1].
Call Number
D North 51/GC112/Box 01/Normal/Prints/Titles A GA 2014.00091
Identifier
ark:/88435/c821gs88m
Publisher
[s.l.] : [s.n.], n.d.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1756-1827
Extent
1 item ; sheet 27 x 40.2 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Grego II, p. 220 (gives date as 1811?)
Tegg no. 261
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
Depiction: Six stages, displaying the difficulties encountered by a French dancing master in labouring to instruct unconquerably clumsy and elderly pupils, who obviously possess no sort of aptitude for movement or grace.
Signed in plate, lower left: "Woodward del.".
Signed in plate, lower right: "Rowlandson scul.".

Discovery Information

Subject
Caricature
Dance—Study and teaching—Caricatures and cartoons
Dance teachers—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Clumsiness—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Occupations—Great Britain—19th century—Caricatures and cartoons
City and town life—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/c7660e6b-37e5-4bf3-aef8-1f8855af8b3c/manifest