Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Hackney assembly. The Graces, the Graces, remember the Graces.
Call Number
D North 52/GC112/Box 08/Normal/Prints/Titles Fo-H GA 2014.00271
Identifier
ark:/88435/ms35th728
Publisher
[s.l.] : [s.n.], 1812.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1812
Extent
1 item ; sheet 27.7 x 27 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Grego II, pp. 235-236
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Etchings, Hand coloring
Depiction: Interior scene. Broad burlesque of the deportment displayed by the frequenters of a suburban ball-room. The awkward and ungainly carriages of all the figures is amusingly exaggerated. A master of the ceremonies, the expression of whose features is complicated by a decided squint, is briskly performing the rites of his office and introducing a cobby little gentleman as a partner to an angular and misshapen spinster, who, in consulting the graces, has thrown her Gothic frame into an absurdly constrained and affected posture.
Signed in plate: "Rowlandson 1812" [changed from 1802 or 1801].

Discovery Information

Subject
Caricature
Balls (Parties)—Great Britain—Caricatures and cartoons
Dance etiquette—Great Britain—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/8947f8e7-d26e-4388-b8a7-80ffb726ba54/manifest