File:Grown Gentlemen taught to Dance (BM 1892,0714.725).jpg
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[edit]Grown Gentlemen taught to Dance ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Print made by: John Goldar
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Title |
Grown Gentlemen taught to Dance |
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Description |
English: A satire on pretensions to be fashionable showing an ungainly young man being instructed in dancing by a lithe fashionable teacher, who had curl papers in his hair, one of which is lettered “Newton” and another “Locke on Understanding” and who holds his pupil by the hand, while pointing to his own feet. The pupil has a handkerchief in his pocket and a paper lettered “The Lads a Dunce”. A violinist sits in front to the left, another instrument (described by Stephens as an ear trumpet) leaning against his chair, books, incuding one entitled “The Hornpipe Seriously considered”, lie on the ground at his feet and two kittens play in his violin case. At the back, beneath a paper reading “GROWN Gentlemen taught …”, another pupil wearing spotty stocking, his cane beside him, awaits his turn for a lesson while his feet are held in a trough forcing them to turn out. On the wall behind is a full-length picture of an elegant dancier. 27 June 1767
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Date |
1767 date QS:P571,+1767-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Prints and Drawings |
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Accession number |
1892,0714.725 |
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Notes |
Stephens suggests that the subject may have been inspired by a teacher who was known for teaching "grown Gentlemen" to dance (The Oxford Magazine, vi, 1771, p.177, where the dancing school is called "Le Roque's", and Horace Walpole letter to Lord Nuneham, 6 December 1773). This is an earlier version of the print described by Stephens as BM Satires 4250. The painting by Collett was presumably passed to Sayer by 1768, see J,5.78 and 1878,0713.1307. |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1892-0714-725 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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Date and time of digitizing | 12:44, 21 January 2008 |
File change date and time | 12:47, 21 January 2008 |
Date metadata was last modified | 12:47, 21 January 2008 |