title: Harlequin

callNumber: *MGZFD Anon Har 1-2

text: Commedia dell'arte

text: Harlequin (Fictitious character) in art

title: Harlequin

abstracts: Two views of a harlequin, both full length to the right. He is wearing a soft hat with a feather, the traditional multi-colored costume, and a slap stick in his belt. Probably illustrations from a book.

text: Prints


mmsType: Item

field: dateIssued

point: start

point: end

title: Interior of the new dancing room called the Riet Dyck at Antwerp

callNumber: *MGZFD Anon Int 1

sourceSystem: mms

type: topic

authority: lcsh

text: Ballrooms

text: Dance

type: geographic

authority: naf

text: Belgium

type: temporal

text: 19th century

abstracts: Depicted is a large dance hall for the bourgeoisie, with rows of chandeliers, draped windows and a high loft at left for musicians. At back is a semi-circular alcove. Three couples are dancing, but most of the patrons are conversing or drinking.

authority: lctgm

text: Prints

rights: Can be used inside free NYPL exhibition catalogs and in free NYPL brochures

rights: Can be sold through 3rd party print partner (e.g., New York Times)

rights: Can be used in products created by NYPL for commercial gain (e.g., Library Shop, CDs, DVDs, etc.)

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collectionTitle: Prints depicting dance


keyDate: yes

title: London bridge

callNumber: *MGZFD Anon Lon 1

authority: local

text: Singing dances and games

title: London bridge

supplied: yes

abstracts: A plate from a book showing a group of young people playing a game suggesting London bridge.

text: Prints


title: A Parisian salon

callNumber: *MGZFD Anon Par 1

text: Dance

text: France

text: 19th century

title: A Parisian salon

abstracts: An attractively furnished room in which five women dance or lounge about. The men are in varied attire, suggesting foreign visitors. A woman is playing the piano, foreground right. A painting of a nude woman on the wall and the general deportment of the women suggest an elegant brothel.

text: Prints

extent: colored on tinted ground, image: 16 x 21 cm.


title: Eine Schwedische Bauern-Hochzeit

callNumber: *MGZFD Anon Sch 1

text: Folk dancing

text: Sweden

title: Eine Schwedische Bauern-Hochzeit

abstracts: An anonymous book illustration depicting the festivities after a Swedish village wedding.

abstracts: An indoor setting with three musicians standing on wooden barrels. Three couples are dancing; the women are resting one hand on their partner's forearm. Guests drink and chat in the background.

text: Prints


title: Social dancing

callNumber: *MGZFD Anon Soc 1

title: Social dancing

abstracts: Unsigned print of two men, both facing the viewer, in a spirited dance. The man at left is wearing a short jacket, vest, cravat, calf-length pantaloons, and boots. The man on the right is wearing a frock coat, vest, and knee breeches.

text: Prints


title: After the opera

originInfo: 1840LondonH. Bailliere

callNumber: *MGZFD  Anon Aft 1

text: Theater audiences

text: England

title: After the opera

abstracts: Depiction of the lamplit colonnade of a theatre, where elegantly dressed patrons of the opera are seen departing after a performance. At center, a shabbily dressed man approaches a well-dressed trio, probably soliciting business for a hansom cab.

text: Prints


title: Fastnacht-Spiel zu Paris und dessen böser Äusgang

callNumber: *MGZFD  Anon Fas 1

namePart: Charles VI, King of France, 1368-1422

text: France

text: History

text: 14th century

text: Caption title.

type: biographical/historical

text: This print is based on an actual historical event that took place at the court of Charles VI of France on Jan. 28, 1393. Later known as the Bal des Ardents or the Ball of the Burning Men, it was originally intended as a celebration of the marriage of Catherine de Fastaverin, a lady-in-waiting to the queen, Isabeau. As part of the entertainment, several men of the court, including Charles himself, were costumed as wild men of the forest in linen garments covered with pitch and flax. These highly flammable garments caught fire when a torch was brought too close by the king's brother Louis, Duc de Orléans. The king had separated himself from the other wild men, and was protected by the Duchesse de Berry, who threw her skirt over him. The event had political repercussions, since Parisians viewed it as proof of the court's decadence and threatened to revolt against the excesses of the nobility.

text: The words Fastnacht-Spiel in the print's caption refer to the Fastnachtspiele, a tradition that arose in Nuremberg, Germany, in the 1440s as a Carnival diversion. Young men, usually journeymen, went in costume from house to house, entertaining the inhabitants. This later developed into a more formal type of dramatic presentation.

abstracts: Leaf from a book in Old German script. The print appears on the verso, page 628, which is headed Historischer Chronick. The recto, page 627, is headed Sechster Theil, and the textual description of the episode illustrated in the print, which is numbered 259 and dated 1394, begins there. The print depicts an elegantly-dressed assembly in a room lit by a chandelier. At center, a small group of bearded men wearing leafy loincloths appear to recoil from the torch held by a man in a plumed hat.

text: Prints

extent: 1 print : woodcut, b&w ; image 11 x 15 cm., on sheet 31 x 20 cm.


title: Danses appellées mitotes

callNumber: *MGZFD  Anon Mit 1

namePart: Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598

type: personal

usage: primary

text: Dance

text: Mexico

text: Ritual and ceremonial dancing

text: Mexico

text: Mitote (Dance)

text: Two other versions of this print, each titled in a different language, are held by the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University, and posted on its online JCB Archive of Early American Images. According to the JCB Archive, both derive from an engraving by Theodor de Bry, published in the series America, Pt. 9, 3rd part, plate 11, accompanying a description of dances of the Mexicans. The print titled Danças llamadas mitotes was published in Antwerp in 1728; the print titled Tänze Mitotes was published in Halle, Germany, in 1752. Although the prints differ in details, the figures of the man balancing on another man's shoulders are a prominent part of all three. As copies of an engraving that was itself based on an original image by another artist, these prints are several times removed from the actual observation of the scene.

text: Theodor de Bry, born in Liège, was an engraver, printmaker, publisher, and goldsmith. Although he is best known for his engraved illustrations to the series America, which began to appear in the 1590s, he never set foot in the New World himself, but based his engravings on works by the watercolorist John White and the artist Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, who did the actual traveling.

title: Dances appellées mitotes

title: Danses appellées mitotes

type: alternative

abstracts: Representation of the mitote, a ritual dance of the native Mexicans. A men's dance, it is said to involve standing on each other's shoulders and ropewalking, both of which are depicted here in an outdoor setting, along with other activities. Some of the men wear headdresses and skirts apparently made of feathers or leaves. The long-haired figure at right, seen from the back, appears to be a female observer. A western sailing ship appears on the waters in the background.

text: Prints


title: Le bal des nations

callNumber: *MGZFD  Anon Nat 1

text: Fans

text: France

text: 18th century

text: In his History of the fan, G. Woolliscroft Rhead describes Le bal des nations as an example of an engraved fan with a topical subject, here the declaration of war against Emperor Charles VI. Other fans of this kind were made in Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

title: Le bal des nations

abstracts: Design for a fan, possibly a reproduction from a book. Wearing the costumes of various nations, a group of women and a few men (including a mustached man at center in travesty, wearing an ankle-length skirt) gathers on a terrace flanked by vine-circled columns; a few refreshments are set out at right. In French verses various countries have their say, beginning with La France and going on to L'Espagne, La Sardagne, L'Italie, L'Allemagne, La Saxe, La Russie, La Pologne, La Turquie, La Hollande, and L'Angleterre. The music to which the verses are sung is indicated at left by the note "sur l'air du bel âges," and musical notation on the risers of the steps. The word "bal" in the title may be metaphorical rather than literal, although the three central figures (the man in travesty and the two women flanking him) seem to interact in dance-like positions.

text: Prints

extent: 1 print : etching, aquatint, engraving, one col. ; plate mark 16 x 27 cm., line border 13 x 24 cm.


title: On Princess Emelia

callNumber: *MGZFD  Anon Pri 1

namePart: Greene, Maurice, 1696-1755

namePart: Amelia, Princess, daughter of George II, King of Great Britain, 1710-1786

namePart: Kirstein, Lincoln, 1907-1996

text: Dance

text: England

text: 18th century

text: Flute and continuo music

type: statement of responsibility

text: [music] set by Dr. Greene.

text: Numbered at upper right: 65.

text: Numbered at lower right: No. XVII.

text: Inscribed: To the Right Hon. the Earl Rivers, these four plates are humbly inscribed.

type: acquisition

text: Gift; Lincoln Kirstein.

text: The musical setting is by Maurice Greene, an English organist and composer of secular as well as religious music. The Emelia of the title, whose name is spelled Amelia in the body of the song, may be Princess Amelia, 1711-1786, the second daughter of George II of Great Britain.

text: Although this illustration does not include the artist's name or signature, it may have been engraved by George Bickham, 1706?-1771, for the song collection The musical entertainer, the first edition of which appeared in 1737.

title: On Princess Emelia

abstracts: Illustrated sheet music for a song beginning: Ye nymphs of Bath prepare the lay. Includes music for accompanied voice and flute. The illustration depicts a scene at a fête champêtre: a woman dances in a garden, partly encircled by male and female companions, some of whom appear to be gazing elsewhere. Her soft, relatively narrow skirt, feathered headdress, and the V shape of her bodice subtly suggest oriental influences. A tiered fountain plays to her left; the trees behind her companions enclose the space to the left and in the background.

typeOfResource:
still image
text
notated music

text: Prints

text: Scores and parts


title: Tanz Narren

callNumber: *MGZFD  Anon Tan 1

text: Ballroom dancing

text: 19th century

text: Dance

text: Caricatures and cartoons

text: Wind instruments

text: At upper right: 13.

text: At lower left: L.

text: At lower right: St [?].

text: The German title of this print may be roughly translated as "dance fools," and the facial expressions and postures of the subjects indeed imply a satirical intent.

title: Tanz Narren

abstracts: Depiction of a scene in an elaborately decorated ballroom, where a woman in a plumed headdress watches as a man in tight pink garments strikes the ballet pose called an arabesque. Behind them is a second woman, whose round face and body give her the appearance of an oversized child. At right, two male musicians play on an elevated stand.

text: Prints

authority: tgm

text: Caricatures

extent: hand-colored ; 22 x 14 cm., plate mark 18 x 11 cm.


title: [Three flower-faced dancers]

callNumber: *MGZFD  Anon Thr 1

text: Dancers

text: 19th century

title: [Three flower-faced dancers]

abstracts: Fanciful depiction of three dancers with the faces of yellow and purple pansies. Presented on a stage with visible boards and flats representing banks of foliage, all three are captured in mid-air, though the winged child dancer, who holds a wreath, is suspended from above by a rope. The woman wears a short white tutu or ballet skirt ornamented with bunches of pink roses, while her male partner, whose left foot is just about to touch the ground, wears fleshings and yellow-and-white striped shorts.

text: Prints

text: Caricatures and cartoons

extent: 1 print : lithograph, col. ; 34 x 26 cm.


title: A village dance in an inn

callNumber: *MGZFD  Anon Vil 1

text: Ballroom dancing

text: Title from text penciled below image.

text: Gift; Lincoln Kirstein.

title: A village dance in an inn

abstracts: In an image probably dating from the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century, a man and a woman dance to the accompaniment of a lone male musician. Among the company, only one man appears to watch them; the others, who are engrossed with their own concerns, include drinkers, lovers, and a woman with a baby. On the wall, as though to indicate the rustic setting, is a framed picture of a grazing cow. A spirited brawl among men armed with sticks is visible through the open door at background left.

text: Prints


title: Wild briervalse de salon

originInfo: 1850New YorkWm. Hall & Son

callNumber: *MGZFD  Anon Wil 1

namePart: Wallace, William Vincent, 1812-1865

namePart: Sarony & Co.

text: At head of title: À Madame Boyer de la Nouvelle Orleans.

text: Lith. of Sarony, N.Y.

text: The composer, who is not identified on this print, is William Vincent Wallace.

title: Wild brier: valse de salon

subTitle: valse de salon

abstracts: Sheet music cover illustration, depicting a barefooted young woman in peasant costume, her skirt caught on a brier.

text: Prints

form:
Sheet music covers
Lithographs

extent: 1 print : lithograph on tinted ground, b&w ; 36 x 28 cm.


field: dateCreated

title: Oliver Wolcott letterbook

callNumber: MssCol 4221

namePart: Wolcott, Oliver

donor: Purchased from Healy, 1929

namePart: Wolcott, Oliver, 1760-1833

type: name

nameType: personal

text: Wolcott, Oliver, 1760-1833

text: China

text: Commerce

text: United States

text: New York (N.Y.)

text: Commerce

text: United States

text: Commerce

text: China

text: Commission merchants

text: New York (State)

text: New York (N.Y.)

text: Dry-goods

text: Embargo, 1807-1809

text: Fur trade

text: Shipping

text: United States

text: Tea trade

type: occupation

text: Merchants

type: funding

title: Oliver Wolcott letterbook

abstracts: Oliver Wolcott (1760-1833), was U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1795 to 1800; U.S. Circuit Court judge, Second Circuit, from 1800-1802; and governor of Connecticut from 1817 to 1827. Wolcott also served as comptroller of the state and presided over the 1818 constitutional convention which formulated the constitution for Connecticut. He was deeply involved in mercantile and banking affairs in New York City during his hiatus from public service. In 1803 Wolcott established the firm of Oliver Wolcott & Company, commission merchants, in partnership with James Watson, Moses Rogers, Archibald Gracie, and William W. Woolsey, in New York City. The firm dissolved in 1805, and Wolcott continued as an independent merchant, primarily in the China trade. Letterbook of Oliver Wolcott & Company, 1803-1805, and of Oliver Wolcott, 1805-1808, contains copies of outgoing letters, some in the hand of Oliver Wolcott, documenting mercantile, real property, and other domestic and foreign commercial transactions. Letters concern the trade in fur and tea with Canton, China; importation of coffee and sugar from Batavia, Java; importation of pepper, salt petre and other commodities from Calcutta, India; exportation of tobacco to Holland and France; trade with Portugal and Barbados; prices and methods of doing business; voyages of the ships Triton and Trident; and the impact of the Napoleonic wars and the Embargo Act on American shipping and commerce. Recipients include, among others, Theodore Dwight, William P. Cleveland, Asa and Daniel Hopkins, David Humphreys, Baring Brothers & Company, and Canton Hong merchants Cheonqua and Houqua.

authority: aat

text: letters

rights: Can be used in advertising for NYPL exhibitions, on catalog covers, in press kits, or fundraising activities

rights: Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation. (funding)


title: The third time she wore the star-dress which sparkled at every step

namePart: Grimm, Wilhelm, 1786-1859

namePart: Rackham, Arthur, 1867-1939

text: Fairy tales

title: The true sweetheart btwn pages 34 & 35

partNumber: btwn pages 34 & 35

text: Book illustrations

collectionTitle: Little brother & little sister and other tales


title: Apache dancers

callNumber: *MGZFD Apa 1

namePart: Steinlen, Théophile Alexandre, 1859-1923

text: Dance

text: France

text: 19th century

title: Apache dancers

abstracts: A circular arena with a couple performing for an audience seated behind a low wall. The man, wearing top hat and tails, grips his partner around the waist, lifting her off the ground.

text: Prints


title: Der Apollo-Saal

callNumber: *MGZFD Apo 1

namePart: Tiedemann, J. G. (Johann Gottfried), 1803-1850

text: Ballroom dancing

text: 19th century

text: A book illustration. Lower right: Lithogr ... J. G. Tiedemann.

title: Der Apollo-Saal

abstracts: A large rectangular ballroom. The dancers hold hands and form a large circle. Male spectators stand about on the main level. Seated female spectators watch from the upper tier.

text: Prints


title: Arbre de la liberté

callNumber: *MGZFD Arb Lib 1

text: Carmagnole (Dance)

text: Dance

text: France

text: History

text: Revolution, 1789-1799

text: Dance

text: France

text: 18th century

title: Arbre de la liberté

abstracts: Crowd of people dancing around a liberty tree decorated with a Revolutionary cap. Many are holding drinking cups and others toss hats into the air. Musicians on a balcony in upper left corner.

text: Prints


title: Selected plates from The art of dancing explained by reading and figures

callNumber: *MGZFD  Art 1-2

namePart: Tomlinson, Kellom

namePart: Van der Gucht, Gerard, 1696-1776

namePart: Bickham, George, 1706?-1771

text: Dance

text: Ballroom dancing

text: 18th century

text: Dance notation

text: K[ellom] T[omlinson] invt.

type: content

text: The print titled The Music or Flourish to the Ceremony or first Honour is labeled [at top left] B. II, [at top right] P. II. The engraver is identified at lower right: G. Vandergucht sc.

text: The print titled Passacaille is labeled [at top left] B. I., [at top right] P. XV. The engraver is identified at lower right: G. Bickham sculp.

text: Inscription on The Music or Flourish to the Ceremony or first Honour: To my ever respected Scholars Mr. Simon Every of Egington in the County of Derby. Son to the Reverend Sir Simon Every Bart. and Miss Ann Every his Sister. This Plate is gratefully inscrib'd by their much oblig'd Servant. Kellom Tomlinson.

text: Inscription on Passacaille [sheet partly damaged at lower right]: To Corbet Owen of Ynysmaingynne Merionethshire, and Riwsaison Montgomeryshire Esqr. & my much respected Scholar Master Richard his brother. This Plate is most humbly inscribed by their most Oblig['d ser[van]t.] Ke[llom Tomlinso]n.

text: Gift; Lincoln Kirstein, 1970.

text: The art of dancing explained by reading and figures was published in 1735 by Kellom Tomlinson, an English dancing master and choreographer who was born ca. 1690 and died after 1753. Its illustrations, which combined depictions of the dancers' figures along with Feuillet notation of their steps, provided a more complete picture of the dance movement, including posture and gesture, than was possible with either figures or notation alone. A second edition of this book appeared in 1744.

text: The engraver Gerard Vandergucht or Van der Gucht was a member of an English family of artists of Flemish origin. A prolific book illustrator, he illustrated editions of Shakespeare's plays and Cervantes's novel Don Quixote. The name George Bickham was shared by a father and son, both engravers with similar styles that are difficult to differentiate. The younger George Bickham is perhaps best known for his illustrations to The musical entertainer (1737-1739), which suggests an interest in music and dance subjects, a possible link to The art of dancing.

abstracts: Two plates from Kellom Tomlinson's dance manual The art of dancing (1735). Both portray dancers in action (in these examples, seen from the back) combined with Feuillet notation of their steps and music notation. The plates published in Tomlinson's books were not colored; these prints have been hand-colored. The print titled The Music or Flourish to the Ceremony or first Honour depicts a man and a woman; Passacaille depicts two men.

typeOfResource:
still image
notated music

text: Prints

extent: 2 prints : engraving, hand-col. ; 22 x 18 cm., line border 21 x 18 cm. or smaller.


title: Opera ball

callNumber: *MGZFD Bal 1

text: Dance

text: France

text: 19th century

text: Ballroom dancing

text: 19th century

text: Anonymous lithograph of an opera ball. Depicted is the interior of an enormous theater with three tiers and a gallery, all filled to capacity. The figures in the foreground suggest general drunkenness and rowdy behavior.

title: Opera ball

text: Prints

extent: Lithograph on tinted ground, 19.5 x 28.5 cm.


title: The ball room

callNumber: *MGZFD Bal 2

text: Dance

text: England

text: 19th century

text: Ballroom dancing

text: Lower left: J. Green del't.

title: The ball room

abstracts: A crowded room with arched entrances and chandeliers. Couples dance at center with spectators at the sides.

text: Prints


title: Ballo d'Ultimo tuono

callNumber: *MGZFD Bal 3

text: Dance

text: Caricatures and cartoons

text: Ballroom dancing

text: 19th century

text: Lower left: C. Arienti e C. dis. e inc.

title: Ballo d'Ultimo tuono

abstracts: Four couples in a drawing room looking askance at a man at center who is leaping in the air, his arms outstretched.

text: Prints

extent: Engraving, colored, plate mark: 18.5 x 25 cm.


title: A view of the ball at St. James's on her Majesty's birth night

originInfo: 1782LondonEuropean Magazine

callNumber: *MGZFD Bal 4

namePart: Dodd, Daniel, fl. 1760-1780

text: Dance

text: England

text: 18th century

text: Balls (Parties)

text: Below image: Dodd del., Tukey sc.

abstracts: The royal couple is seated at back watching two dancers perform a stately dance. The man stands with his left leg turned out. Members of the court are seated behind and to the sides of the king and queen in the unadorned room.

text: Prints


title: Bal de l'Opéra

callNumber: *MGZFD Bal 5

text: Dance

text: France

text: 19th century

title: Bal de l'Opéra

abstracts: At center a couple are performing a spirited dance. The woman is wearing a hat with a plume, a sleeveless chemise, and lace-trimmed pantalettes. Her partner is wearing a helmet, cravate, jacket, sash, and knee-length boots. An elderly man, being embraced by a masked woman, looks in horror at the lightly clad dancer.

text: Prints

extent: Lithograph, partly colored, image: 26.5 x 20 cm.


title: Fête nationale, 14 juillet

callNumber: *MGZFD Bal 6

namePart: Vierge, Daniel, 1851-1904

text: Bastille Day

text: Balls (Parties)

text: celebrations

text: Dancers

text: Lower left: Vierge.

title: Fête nationale, 14 juillet

abstracts: An open-air ball. A crowd of working class people are dancing with abandon. A table with beer steins, foreground right.

text: Prints


title: Bal MabilleChamps Elysées

callNumber: *MGZFD Bal 7

namePart: Muller, T. (Théodore), 1819-1879

text: Ballrooms

text: France

text: Champs-Elysées (Paris, France)

text: Lower left: Chapuy del. Lower right: T. Muller, lith. Beneath image: Paris Lemière Galerie d'Orléans 19. (Pal Ral) et R. Castiglione 14. Bal Mabille Champs Elysées 41. Imp. Lemercier, Paris.

title: Bal Mabille: Champs Elysées

subTitle: Champs Elysées

abstracts: Depicts evening at the pleasure garden Bal Mabille, which opened to the public in Paris, 1840. Lavishly dressed crowd is gathered around a Chinese style pavilion with musicians in an outdoor setting.

text: Prints

extent: 1 print : lithograph, col. ; 19.5 x 29 cm.


title: Bal Mabille

originInfo: 18601869ParisLemercier & Cie

callNumber: *MGZFD Bal 8

namePart: Imprimerie Lemercier et cie

text: Cancan (Dance)

text: Ballrooms

text: France

text: Lower left: Paris. Ancne. Mon. Martinet. Lower right: Imp. Lemercier & Cie. Paris. Beneath image: Bal Mabille 57.

title: Bal Mabille

abstracts: Depicts evening at the pleasure garden Bal Mabille, which opened to the public in Paris, 1840. Crowd dancing around a brightly lit Chinese style pavilion in an outdoor setting.  Can can dancers shown at front and center.

text: Prints

extent: 1 print : lithograph, col. ; 17 x 25 cm.


title: Ballroom dancing

callNumber: *MGZFD  Bal 9-14

namePart: Elfinger, Anton, 1821-1864

namePart: Sürch, Joseph, 1811-1877

namePart: Packer, Thomas, fl. 1855

namePart: Montzaigle, Edgardo de

namePart: Stannard & Dixon

type: corporate

text: Ballroom dancing

text: 19th century

text: Die Überraschung auf dem eleganten Hausballer Gift; Lillian Moore.

title: Ballroom dancing

abstracts: Representations of ballroom dancing or dancers in 19th century prints.

text: Prints

form: Engravings Etchings Lithographs

extent: 5 prints : etching, engraving, b&w or col. ; 31 x 22 cm. or smaller.

extent: 1 print : lithograph, col. ; 32 x 24 cm.


title: Ballroom dancing on British and American 19th-century music covers

callNumber: *MGZFD  Bal 15-24

namePart: Champney, Benjamin, 1817-1907

namePart: Dubois, George, 1811-1888

namePart: Grain, Frederick

namePart: J.H. Bufford & Co

namePart: Sarony & Major

namePart: Wagner & M’Guigan

text: Ballroom dancing

text: England

text: 19th century

text: Ballroom dancing

text: United States

text: 19th century

text: Quadrille (Dance)

text: Waltz

text: Dance music

text: Lawrence quadrilles Gift; Lillian Moore.

text: Bohemian schottisch Purchase; Norman Crider, 1970.

abstracts: Representations of ballroom dancing on the covers of sheet music intended for home performance. Most of the images depict women in evening gowns and men in formal evening attire or military uniforms; an exception is The tournament waltzes, in which the dancers wear Elizabethan costume. Their surroundings, when shown, are usually opulently decorated ballrooms, many lit by chandeliers. The musical scores (not included in this collection) cover a range of popular ballroom dances of the period: the mazurka, quadrille, schottische, and waltz among them.

text: Prints

text: Sheet music covers

text: Scores

extent: 10 prints : chiefly lithograph, chiefly b&w ; 35 x 27 cm. or smaller.


title: Le bal champêtre

callNumber: *MGZFD  Bal 25

text: Ballroom dancing

text: 19th century

title: Le bal champêtre

abstracts: Depiction of an open-air dance in the country. Two couples dance with joined and upraised hands in the foreground; one man wears a military uniform, and two other uniformed men are present. A makeshift chandelier made of candles on a hoop hangs from a line suspended between trees; beyond is an elevated stand where four musicians play. The wreath hanging from a tentpole and the raised glass of a man in the background seem to indicate a celebratory occasion.

text: Prints

extent: 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored ; 26 x 30 cm.


title: BallabendeModernes Tanz-Album für Pianoforte

callNumber: *MGZFD  Bal 26

text: Ballroom dancing

text: Germany

text: Lith. C. Rühle, Leipzig.

title: Ballabende: Modernes Tanz-Album für Pianoforte

subTitle: Modernes Tanz-Album für Pianoforte

abstracts: Sheet music cover illustration depicting a woman and a man in a ballroom dance; three other couples, including a man in military uniform, are seen to their right.

text: Prints

text: Sheet music covers

extent: 1 print : chromolithograph, col. ; 35 x 27 cm., on mount 37 x 30 cm.


title: Der Tanzfex, Walzerlied von Gustav Pick

originInfo: 1895LeipzigJosef Weinberger

callNumber: *MGZFD  Bal 27

namePart: Pick, Gustav

text: Ballroom dancing

text: Germany

type: date

text: Initialed and dated: CL, 1895.

title: Der Tanzfex, Walzerlied von Gustav Pick

abstracts: Sheet music cover illustration. At the top is a ballroom scene, where a couple is dancing, observed by others. Musicians play on an elevated stand; a chandelier hangs overhead. At lower left is a portrayal of an elderly man in a meditative pose, seated at his desk in a well-furnished study.

text: Prints

text: Sheet music covers

extent: 1 print : engraving, brown and white ; 35 x 26 cm.


title: Bal chinois donné par l'empereur une fois tous les ans aux jours gras

originInfo: 17801789Parischez Basset, rue S. Jacques

callNumber: *MGZFD Bal C 1

namePart: Basset (Paris, France)

text: Costume

text: China

text: Fools and jesters

text: Caption [Printed in reverse]: Bal chinois.

text: A version of *MGZFH  Bal C  1, with variant publisher information and coloring.

abstracts: A bare-breasted girl dances at center, her partner is costumed as a hunchbacked fool. Guests in oriental attire sitting or standing in a semi-circle at back; musicians playing string and wind instruments at right.

text: Prints

extent: Engraving, colored, image: 25.6 x 40 cm.


title: [Basse danse]

originInfo: 1493NurembergAnton Koberger

callNumber: *MGZFD Bas 1

namePart: Schedel, Hartmann, 1440-1514

namePart: Pleydenwurff, Wilhelm, d. 1494

namePart: Wolgemut, Michael, 1434-1519

namePart: Koberger, Anton, ca. 1440-1513

text: Basse danse (Dance)

text: Dance

text: Germany

text: 15th century

text: Musicians

text: Family trees

type: source note

text: Page from Hartmann Schedel's Liber Chronicarum Mundi, which was illustrated mainly by Michael Wolgemut and Wilhelm Pleydenwurf. Vignette, surrounded on three sides by Latin text, depicting four couples performing a basse danse to a flute and drum accompaniment; outdoor setting.

type: reproduction

text: Reproduced in Mabel Dolmetsch, Dances of England and France from 1450 to 1600, 1949, opp. p. 64.

title: [Basse danse]

typeOfResource:
still image
text

text: Prints

extent: Woodcut within line border, 12 x 15.5 cm. (on sheet 41.4 x 29.5 cm.).


title: Bauerntracht aus d. 2ten H. d. 15ten Jahrh

callNumber: *MGZFD  Bau 1

text: Clothing and dress

text: Europe

text: 15th century

text: Costume prints

text: Peasants

text: Caption title.

text: Probably a plate from an unidentified book of costume prints.

type: numbering

text: At upper right: 145.

abstracts: Depiction of male and female peasant clothing in the second half of the fifteenth century, from an unspecified European country. The print consists of two sections, each portraying two male-female couples. The couples in the top section are shown in movement, possibly dancing.

text: Prints

extent: 1 print : etching on tinted ground, b&w ; 35 x 24 cm., plate mark 26 x 18 cm.


title: [Funeral of Francesco de' Medici]

callNumber: *MGZFD  Bel S Fun 1

namePart: Della Bella, Stefano, 1610-1664

namePart: Parigi, Alfonso, d. 1656

nameType: corporate

text: San Lorenzo (Church : Florence, Italy)

text: Medici, Francesco de', 1614-1634

text: Al[fonso] Parigi in. ; Stef[ano] della Bella fe.

text: Title from the online catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, which holds a copy with the artist's monogram.

text: The online catalog of the British Museum, London, which also holds a copy of this print, notes that the monogram SDB at lower right has been partly hatched out.

text: Gift; Lincoln Kirstein.

text: The Italian artist Stefano della Bella was a prolific producer of drawings and prints. His subject matter included contemporary operas, theatre works, and festivals. Alfonso Parigi belonged to an Italian family of stage designers and architects. Della Bella also made etchings of Parigi's designs for the opera Le nozze degli dei (1637) and an equestrian ballet (1652).

title: [Funeral of Francesco de' Medici]

abstracts: Representation of the interior of the church of San Lorenzo in Florence, with Francesco de' Medici's tomb at center near the high altar, and funerary decorations, including skeletons, at the sides of the nave. The Medici coat of arms hangs at top.

text: Prints


title: [Peasant dance]

callNumber: *MGZFD Bia A Pea 1

namePart: Biasioli, Angelo, 1790-1830

type: topic

text: Folk dancing

text: tambourines

text: Lower right: A. Biasioli inc. all' A. T.

title: [Peasant dance]

abstracts: A nighttime scene before a wooden structure. A bare footed woman dances at center, a tambourine in one hand and small bells in the other. Various spectators watch, including a man in a turban with a bow and arrows. At right a kneeling woman reads fortunes in a fire. A general air of mystery pervades the print.

text: Prints

extent: Aquatint, colored, plate mark: 21.5 x 28.4 cm.


title: Black Crook waltzes

originInfo: 1867New YorkBufford Bros.

callNumber: *MGZFD Bla 1

namePart: Bufford Brothers

namePart: Clay, Frederic, 1838-1889

text: Niblo's Garden Theatre

text: Waltzes

text: Included are six pages of music: "The Black Crook Waltzes, adapted from the ballet music of the Black Crook performed at Niblo's."

title: Black Crook waltzes

abstracts: Unsigned lithograph, depicting the grotto of Talacta, queen of the golden realm, Act II, sc. 4 of The Black Crook, during which was performed the ballet "The Revel of the Sirens."

abstracts: An overgrown bank on the edge of a grotto; a woman standing at center, surrounded by five female attendants; a couple, engaged in conversation, reclining foreground left.

text: Prints

text: Scores


title: Dance of the Mandan Indians

callNumber: *MGZFD  Bod K Man 1

namePart: Rawdon, Wright & Hatch

text: Mandan Indians

text: Social life and customs

text: Mandan dance

text: drawn by Ch[arles] Bodmer ; eng[rave]d by Rawdon, Wright & Hatch.

text: The Swiss-born artist Karl Bodmer (sometimes known as Carl or Charles) accompanied his patron Prince Maximilien of Wied-Neuwied on a scientific expedition to North America in 1833-1834. His paintings chronicled Native Americans in a way of life that was soon to vanish. His depictions of the Mandan Indians of North Dakota are particularly poignant in the light of the fact that the tribe was decimated by smallpox in 1837.

title: Dance of the Mandan Indians

abstracts: Representation of a dance performed by men in feathered headdresses and elaborate regalia, carrying decorated staffs. Five men appear to form a circle in the foreground; other dancers are visible behind them. A cloaked figure, seen from the back, stands at far left. At far right, a man watches from horseback.

text: Prints


title: Pistolees e las sequidillas boleras

callNumber: *MGZFD Bol 1

text: Bolero (Dance)

text: Seguidilla (Dance)

text: Seguidillas (Music)

text: guitars

text: Anonymous, cropped engraving.

text: Purchased with funds from the Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

title: Pistolees e las sequidillas boleras

abstracts: Couple in Spanish attire, both holding castanets, dance on an open plain with a mountainous range in background. Woman, to front, wears enormous hat, calf-length dress trimmed with lace. Her partner, viewed from the back, face in profile, wears tricorn, snood, knee-breeches. Musician at left playing guitar.

text: Prints


title: El Bolero

callNumber: *MGZFD Bol 2

text: Bolero (Dance)

text: Dance

type: geographic

text: Spain

text: Castanets

title: El Bolero

abstracts: Anonymous print of two dancers, perhaps with a balletic background, giving an impression of Spanish dancing. Both are holding castanets, their wrists curving inward; their eyes are in the general direction of the viewer, rather than of each other. The woman (1.) and man are both poised on their left foot. A sketchily rendered outdoor setting, a building in the distance.

text: Prints


title: Le bon genreno. 24

callNumber: *MGZFD Bon 1

text: Dance

text: Caricatures and cartoons

text: (Le bon genre. 24)

title: Les contrastes

title: Les contrastes

type: uniform

abstracts: An anonymous engraving, possibly after a watercolor by Garbizza or Dutailly. A young man, at left, dances with an unattractive, older woman. At right, a tall, beautiful girl, wearing a décolleté dress, dances with a short, corpulent man.

text: Prints

extent: Engraving, colored, line border: 16.7 x 23.4 cm.


title: Le bon genreno. 91

originInfo: 1930ParisLes Éditions Albert Levy

callNumber: *MGZFD Bon 2

text: Dance

text: France

type: temporal

text: 19th century

text: Pierrot (Fictitious character)

text: Acrobatic dancing

title: L'Equilibre du chandelier

title: L'Equilibre du chandelier

abstracts: A twentieth-century engraving by E. Doisteau after the original Le bon genre print of circa 1817. A man in a pierrot costume steadying a candlestick, on a table, upon which is balanced a woman in Empire dress. She stands on her left foot, while her right leg is contorted back behind her so that it touches her face. A small boy in pierrot costume walks on his hands on a mat nearby, while a mother and daughter stand at the side about to give the performers money.

text: Prints

extent: Engraving, colored by J. Saudé, vignette in line border, border: 21.5 x 26 cm.


title: Le bon genreno. 1

originInfo: 1928ParisLes Éditions Albert Levy

callNumber: *MGZFD Bon 3

text: Waltz (Dance)

text: Dance

text: France

text: 19th century

title: La Walse

title: Le bon genre

partNumber: no. 1

abstracts: A twentieth-century engraving by E. Doisteau after the original Le bon genre print of circa 1817. Caricature of two flamboyantly dressed Regency couples in the then-risqué embrace of the new waltz.

text: Prints

extent: Engraving, colored by J. Saudé, vignette in line border, border: 16.6 x 23 cm.


title: Le bon genreno. 8

callNumber: *MGZFD Bon 4

text: Dance

text: France

text: 19th century

text: Balls (Parties)

text: Masquerades

text: double basses

text: A twentieth-century engraving by E. Doisteau after the original Le bon genre print of circa 1817. Depicts two couples meeting at a costume ball while dancing. The men are dressed as Napoleon and as a Sultan, and the women are in medieval and rustic dress. A musician playing a string bass looks on.

title: La Rencontre au bal

title: La Rencontre au bal

partNumber: no. 8

text: Prints

extent: Engraving, colored by J. Saudé, vignette in line border, border: 16.8 x 22.5 cm.


title: Le bon genreno. 109

originInfo: 1931ParisLes Éditions Albert Levy

callNumber: *MGZFD Bon 5

namePart: Lanté, Louis Marie, b. 1789

type: personal

text: Dance for children

text: Graces, The

text: Scarves

text: Lower left: Lanté del't. Lower right: Gatine sculp't.

title: La Danse du schall

title: La Danse du schall

abstracts: A twentieth-century engraving by E. Doisteau after the original Le bon genre print of ca. 1822, engraved by Georges Jacques Gatine after the drawing by Louis Marie Lanté. Depicts three young girls intertwined in the tradition of the Three Graces, dancing with a long wine-colored shawl which billows above them.

text: Prints

extent: Engraving, colored by J. Saudé, vignette, plate mark: 23.2 x 28.8 cm.


title: Le bon genreno. 21

callNumber: *MGZFD Bon 7

text: Dance

text: France

text: 19th century

title: La Sauteuse

title: Le bon genre

abstracts: Proof copy of a twentieth-century engraving by E. Doisteau after the original Le Bon Genre print of ca. 1817. Two couples in Empire dress dancing with brio.

text: Prints

extent: Engraving, colored by J. Saudé, vignette in line border, border: 16.3 x 23 cm.


title: Le bon genreno. 43

originInfo: 1929ParisLes Éditions Albert Levy

callNumber: *MGZFD Bon 8

text: Dance

text: France

text: 19th century

text: Quadrilles

title: La poule

title: Le bon genre

abstracts: A twentieth-century engraving by E. Doisteau after the original Le bon genre print of ca. 1817. Two couples with hands joined, performing the third figure of the quadrille. Gentleman at right kissing hand of lady to his left.

text: Prints

extent: Engraving, colored by J. Saudé, vignette in line border, border: 16 x 22.1 cm.


title: Le maistre a danser

originInfo: 17001799Paris], rue St. Iacques à l'aigle avec privChez N. Bonnart

callNumber: *MGZFD Bon N Mai 1

namePart: Bonnart, Nicolas, 1637-1718

text: Dance teachers

text: violins

text: Bonnart, del. et sc.

text: Caption reads: A bon droit ce maistre de dance/ Puisque des gens de consequence/ Veut que de tuy l'on fasse cas/ Font gloire de suivre ses pas.

text: Possibly a later rendering of a 17th century print.

title: Le maistre a danser

abstracts: Image depicts a French ballet master, full-length to the front, dressed in 17th century attire including a lace trimmed jacket and a long curly wig.  He bears a small sword attached to his coat in the back.  He plays a violin.

text: Prints

place: Paris, rue St. Iacques à l'aigle avec priv


title: Grown bears taught to dance

originInfo: 1770Londonprinted for Carington Bowles, at his map & print warehouse, no. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard

callNumber: *MGZFD Bow C Gro 1

namePart: Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793

text: Bears in art

text: Wind instruments

title: Grown bears taught to dance

abstracts: A boy leaning against a building, playing a double-reed instrument; a woman watching from a window above; two muzzled bears, one with a monkey sitting on his back; a man dancing, tipping his hat with his right hand.

text: Prints


title: Springs

originInfo: 17801789Londonprinted for & sold by Carrington Bowles, no. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard

callNumber: *MGZFD Bow C Spr 1

text: Dance

text: England

text: 18th century

text: Dance teachers

text: Pochette (Musical instrument)

text: Wall clocks

text: Number 6, upper righthand corner.

title: Springs

abstracts: Dancing master, playing a pochette, teaches an elderly man to dance. His pupil appears to be preparing to leap into the air. Both men with grey powdered hair, coats with skirt cut away towards back, cravat, knee breeches fitting over stockings, buckled shoes.

text: Prints

extent: Engraving, colored, oval image: 19.4 x 14.5 cm.


title: The Boleras dance

callNumber: *MGZFD Bra W Bol 1

namePart: Bradford, William, 1779 or 80-1857

namePart: Clark, John Heaviside, ca. 1770-1863

text: Bolero (Dance)

text: Castanets

text: guitars

text: Rev'd W'm Bradford del; I. Clark sculp.

text: Reproduced in Lillian Moore, Images of the dance, 1965, p. 41.

title: The Boleras dance

abstracts: Two dancers in Spanish attire in an outdoor setting. Both are holding castanets. The man has his back to the viewer.  A man playing a guitar is seated at left.

text: Prints

extent: Aquatint, vignette, colored, image: 18 x 29 cm.


title: Brevet de danse

originInfo: 18601869Metz (France)

callNumber: *MGZFD Bre 1

text: Male dancers

text: Military personnel

text: Dance

text: France

text: 19th century

text: Ensemble playing

text: Musical instruments

text: Fabrique d’Estampes de Gangel, à Metz

title: Brevet de danse

abstracts: A dance diploma depicting a large veranda. Seventeen men and women watch a man execute his dance steps. A five piece orchestra plays in a box at left.

text: Prints

extent: Lithograph, colored, line border: 21 x 39 cm.


title: Brevet de danse

originInfo: 18601870Metz (France)

callNumber: *MGZFD  Bre 2

text: Male dancers

text: Dance

text: France

text: 19th century

text: Military personnel

text: Ensemble playing

text: Fabrique d'Estampes de P. Didion, à Metz.

text: Purchase; Ballet Shop, 1988.

title: Brevet de danse

abstracts: Dance diploma depicting a man in military uniform, with a stick in the crook of his right arm, performing on a veranda before an audience of men in uniform and elaborately dressed ladies. An eight-man orchestra plays in a box at left. In the background are a balustrade, pillars adorned with bunting, and glimpses of buildings in the distance. The image is surrounded by an ornate border incorporating the words, reading clockwise from center, "Graces et décence. Légèreté. Vif au plaisir, ardent au travail. Agilité." The diploma's blanks for the names of the recipient and his instructor, his title, and the date have not been filled in.

text: Prints

form: Diplomas Engravings

extent: 1 print : engraving, etching with metallic pigment, col. ; 30 x 45 cm.


title: Strephon & Chloe

originInfo: 1772-11-28LondonJ. Bretherton f. New Bond Street no. 134

callNumber: *MGZFD Bre J C 1

namePart: Bretherton, James, fl. 1770-1781

namePart: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811

text: Dance

text: Caricatures and cartoons

text: J. Bretherton f., Mr. Bunbury del.

text: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein.

title: Strephon & Chloe

abstracts: Caricature of a man and woman dancing, both dancers are old and grotesquely ugly. Two spectators grinning at a window. Poster on wall states: Assembly, Hockley in the Hole, H. Hog, master of the ceremonies.

text: Prints


title: [The Venetian wedding]

originInfo: 15851620Frankfurt am Main

callNumber: *MGZFD  Bry J Ven 1

namePart: Bry, Johann Theodor de, 1561-1623?

namePart: Barendsz, Dirck, 1534-1592

namePart: Goltzius, Hendrik, 1558-1617

namePart: Martial

text: Weddings

text: Italy

text: Venice

text: 16th century

text: The British Museum's copy of this print, which is not trimmed, identifies the engraver: Joan Theodorus de Bry excud.

type: language

text: Includes inscriptions in French and Latin, among them an epigram by Martial.

text: Title derived from British Museum online catalog.

type: biographical/historical

text: Print made by the engraver Johann Theodor de Bry after an engraving by Hendrik Goltzius, made in 1584 after a drawing by Dirck Barendsz. Barendsz, who was born and died in Amsterdam, worked for a time in Titian's workshop in Venice. This print reverses the image in Goltzius's engraving, so that the bridal couple faces left rather than right.

title: [The Venetian wedding]

abstracts: Representation of a well-dressed bridal couple, their postures suggesting dance movement, surrounded by equally elegant guests. Musicians play in a gallery at right. In the background is a view of Venice's lagoon. The two men in the doorway at left have been identified in the British Museum's online catalog as the commedia dell'arte characters Magnifico and his assistant Zanni. M.A. Katritzky's The art of commedia: a study in the commedia dell'arte 1560-1620 with special reference to the visual records (2006) identifies the first man as Pantalone.

text: Prints

extent: 1 print : engraving, b&w ; diam. image 16 cm.


title: The allemand dance

originInfo: 1772-03-20Londonprinted for J. Smith, no. 35, Cheapside, & Robert Sayer, no. 53, Fleet Street

callNumber: *MGZFD Cal J C 1

namePart: Caldwall, James, 1739-1819

namePart: Brandoin, Michel Vincent, 1733-1807

text: Allemande (Dance)

text: Dance

text: Caricatures and cartoons

text: Ballroom dancing

text: Musicians

type: statement of responsibility

text: Brandoin pinx., Caldwell sculp.

title: The allemand dance

abstracts: A panelled ballroom with a small musicians gallery on the right in which are a fiddler and a flute-player.  In the center a couple dance together; the man, standing behind his partner and holding her outstretched hands by the fingertips, leers at her.  Seated spectators converse.

text: Prints


title: The cotillion dance

originInfo: 1771Londonprinted for Rob't Sayer, no. 53 Fleet Street, & Jn. Smith, no. 35 Cheapside, 10 March

callNumber: *MGZFD Cal J C 2

namePart: Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794

text: Dance

text: England

text: 18th century

text: Dance

text: Caricatures and cartoons

text: Ballroom dancing

text: Cotillions

text: Musicians

text: Jn. Collet pinx. Ja's Caldwall sculp.

title: The cotillion dance

abstracts: A ballroom where men and women are dancing in a circle. They are nearly all depicted as unattractive and beyond middle-age. Two musicians are in a raised stall. Three people observe the dancing, background left.

text: Prints

extent: Engraving, colored, plate mark: 25.5 x 36.5 cm.


title: Il Trovatoreno, 14, Aprile 1, 1877, p. 5-6

originInfo: 1877-04-01MilanIl Trovatoreserial

callNumber: *MGZFD Cam C 1

namePart: Camillo

text: Dance

text: Caricatures and cartoons

text: Ballerinas

text: Signed on stone, lower left: Camillo.

title: Pose Silfidée

title: Pose Silfidée

abstracts: Five vignettes of a chesty female dancer. She is executing an entrechat at center.

text: Prints


title: Eccellenze ed onorevoli

callNumber: *MGZFD  Cam Ecc 1

text: Dancers

text: Caricatures and cartoons

text: Ballerinas

text: Camillo.

text: Lit. Rolla.

text: Below the image is a four-line verse in Italian: Se Alfieri il grande ritornasse in terra / Si strapperebbe per dispetto il crine / Vedendo il suo nipote a far la guerra / A dubbiose virtu di -- ballerine.

type: acquisition

text: Gift; Lillian Moore.

title: Eccellenze ed onorevoli

abstracts: Caricature of a large bearded man with an oversized head, dangling a purse (?) just out of reach of two much smaller female ballet dancers. Two other dancers surround him, one striking a dance pose behind him, the other clinging to the arm of his chair and gazing up at him adoringly. In the background is a statue of a man and a framed picture.

text: Prints


title: Le Cancan

originInfo: 18501859BerlinF. Sala & C., Unter d. Linden 51

callNumber: *MGZFD Can 1

namePart: F. Sala & Co.

text: Cancan (Dance)

text: Dance

text: France

text: 19th century

text: No. 1 of an unsigned series of lithographs entitled Le Cancan.

title: Le Cancan

abstracts: Woman on left knee, holding skirt above right knee, looking up at a man to her left, cigar in her mouth. Man, standing, has right arm behind her back, holds top hat above his head with left hand.

text: Prints

extent: Lithograph on tinted ground, colored, ground: 30.5 x 26.5 cm.


title: Le Cancan

callNumber: *MGZFD Can 2

text: Cancan (Dance)

text: Dance

text: France

text: 19th century

text: No. 2 of an unsigned series of lithographs entitled Le Cancan.

title: Le Cancan

abstracts: Couple dancing: man, at left, leans toward woman, his arms raised, top hat in right hand. Woman leans away from him, weight on left foot, lifting skirt with right hand.

text: Prints


title: Le Cancan

originInfo: 18501860BerlinF. Sala & C., Unter d. Linden 51

callNumber: *MGZFD Can 3

text: Cancan (Dance)

text: Dance

text: France

text: 19th century

text: No. 4 of an unsigned series of lithographs entitled Le Cancan.

title: Le Cancan

abstracts: Couple dancing: woman at left, full length to right, face viewed in profile, lifting skirt and petticoats above knees. Man in half-bow toward woman, top hat in right hand, extended toward her, handkerchief in left hand, held above shoulder.

text: Prints


title: Le cancan

callNumber: *MGZFD Can 4

text: Cancan (Dance)

text: Dance

text: France

text: 19th century

text: No. 5 of an unsigned series of lithographs.

title: Le cancan

abstracts: A couple vis-à-vis, both with right foot forward, leg slightly turned out, left foot back. Man, cigar in mouth, holds handkerchief in right hand. Woman, at right, holds skirt and petticoats above knees.

text: Prints

extent: Lithograph on tinted ground, colored, 30.5 x 26.5 cm.


title: Le cancan

originInfo: 18511860BerlinF. Sala & C., Unter d. Linden 51

callNumber: *MGZFD Can 5

text: Cancan (Dance)

text: Dance

text: France

text: 19th century

text: No. 6 of an unsigned series of lithographs.

title: Le cancan

abstracts: Man at left, on right knee, right hand raised, top hat in extended left hand, cigar in mouth. Woman standing at right, lifting skirts to reveal knees.

text: Prints


title: Captain Wallis, on his arrival at O'Taheite, in conversation with Oberea the queen, while her attendants are performing a favorite dance called the timrodee

originInfo: 17701779Londonpublished by Alex'r Hoggat at the Kings Arms

callNumber: *MGZFD Cap 1

text: Dance

text: French Polynesia

text: Tahiti (French Polynesia : Island)

type: name

text: Wallis, Samuel, 1728-1795

text: Folk musicians

text: Hamilton delin., [Thomas?] Morris sculp.

abstracts: Based on Samuel Wallis's voyage around the world, 1766-1768. A flute player, drummer and three bare-breasted women dancing at left. Captain Wallis seated at right, conversing with a woman.

text: Prints


title: Le Chalumaux

callNumber: *MGZFD Cha 1

namePart: Cournand, Gilberte

text: Bagpipes

text: Chalumeau

text: Shepherds

text: Caption reads: Berger par une sympathie, lise écoute bien ta leçon. Ton Chalumaux lui fait envie. C'est a toi de donner le ton.

text: lot #63.

text: Purchase at auction; Mme. Gilberte Cournand; 1998/02/26;

title: Le Chalumaux

abstracts: Pastoral scene depicts shepherd at rest with sheep and a goat, while a girl stands near him.  Shepherd plays bagpipes or chalumeau.  The girl holds a basket of flowers and a garland; she wears a bonnet.

text: Prints

extent: 1 print : engraving, b&w ; image 10 x 9 cm., on sheet 18 x 14 cm.


title: M'elle Chameroy reçue par Saint Thomas, l'an onze - 1802

callNumber: *MGZFD Cha M Sai 2

text: Dancers

text: France

text: 19th century

text: Chameroy, Marie Adrienne, 1779-1802

text: Funeral rites and ceremonies

abstracts: A courtyard leading to the entrance of St.-Thomas. Four pallbearers carry a coffin into the church. A robed figure, possibly representing St. Thomas, extends his hands. Church officials wait on the steps to receive the body of Chameroy; mourners and spectators.

text: Prints

extent: Engraving, colored, line border: 16 x 23.6 cm.


title: Fête de village

originInfo: 1836Parislith. de Lemercier, Bernard et cie

callNumber: *MGZFD Cha P Fet 1

namePart: Challamel, Pierre Joseph, b. 1813

namePart: Collignon, François Jules, -1850

text: Country dancing

text: Musicians

text: On stone (reversed): Challamel 1836.

text: Collignon del., Challamel lith.

title: Fête de village

abstracts: French pastoral dance scene of ca. 1750. Peasants dance a contredance, an aristocratic couple watch, two musicians perform on kegs; cottages, a church and mountains in background.

text: Prints


title: Les Maîtres de l'affiche41

originInfo: 1896ParisImprimerie Chaix

callNumber: *MGZFD Ché J 1

namePart: Chéret, Jules, 1836-1932

text: Dance

text: France

text: 19th century

text: Musée Grévin

text: Reynaud, Charles Emile, 1844-1918

text: Signed on stone: Chéret '92.

text: Lithographic reproduction of Chéret's larger 1892 poster (124.5 x 88.3 cm.) advertising Emile Reynaud's 1891 animated projection show Pauvre Pierrot.

title: Musée Grévin, pantomimes lumineuses, Théâtre Optique de E. Reynaud, musique de Gaston Paulin

abstracts: Pierrot figure in background right playing a guitar. Female figure wearing wide-brimmed hat with plume and dress of the period, foreground center; a tambourine, mask, and guitar at her feet. Dry stamp "Les Maîtres de l'Affiche" bottom right corner.

text: Prints

extent: Lithograph, colored, image: 27.6 x 19.8 cm.


title: Les Maîtres de l'affiche45

callNumber: *MGZFD Ché J 2

text: Champsaur, Félicien, 1859-1934

text: Performing arts

text: Posters

text: Dance

text: France

text: 19th century

text: Signed on stone: Chéret 6/88.

text: Lithographic reproduction of Chéret's 1888 poster publicizing Félicien Champsaur's novel L'Amant des danseuses.

text: Dry stamp "Les Maîtres de l'Affiche" bottom right corner.

title: L'Amant des danseuses: roman moderniste par Félicien Champsaur

subTitle: roman moderniste par Félicien Champsaur

abstracts: Depicts a man in top hat ogling a Gaîté or variety dancer foreground center. The dancer, holding a tambourine to the side with both hands, leaps in the air, her right foot touching the back of her left leg. Female dancers watching in background.

text: Prints

extent: Lithograph, colored, image: 27 x 22.3 cm.


title: M'elle Chameroy refusée par St. Roch, l'an onze - 1802

callNumber: *MGZFD Cha M Sai 1

text: Dance

text: France

text: 19th century

text: Chameroy, Marie Adrienne, 1779-1802

text: Funeral rites and ceremonies

abstracts: In 1802, the priest of Saint-Roch refused to allow the body of Marie Chameroy to be brought into his church. Depicts a casket in a wagon, hung with crape, by the church steps. Mourners, spectators, a ferocious dog, beggars trying to placate the dog, an angry, barefoot man on the church steps with shells on his clothing.

text: Prints


title: 1785-1786

namePart: Webster, Noah, 1758-1843

type: funding

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title: 1785-1786

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title: Draft of etymology of words Adonists through Adore

namePart: Webster, Noah

donor: J. Pierpont Morgan

text: etymological dictionaries


title: Miscellaneous notes, extracts and quotations

type: content

text: Fragments; numbered 1698, 1699

text: notes


title: Synopsis of words, L and M

text: Letter M, No. 70, Celtic dialects

title: Synopsis of words, L and M

text: etymological dictionaries


title: Miscellany, fragments, or incomplete

title: Miscellany, fragments, or incomplete

text: Documents


title: Child dancers

callNumber: *MGZFD  Chi 1-4

namePart: T. Sinclairs Lith.s Lith.

type: corporate

text: Child dancers

text: 19th century

text: Dance teachers

text: Young folks festival contains music score for quadrille on the verso.

text: Dancing lesson Gift; Lincoln Kirstein, 1968.

text: Little Italian dancers & singers Gift; Lillian Moore.

title: Child dancers

abstracts: Representations of child dancers in 19th-century prints.

text: Prints

form: Engravings Lithographs

extent: 3 prints : lithograph, b&w ; 35 x 26 cm. or smaller.


title: Californie indien dansant

callNumber: *MGZFD Cho 1

namePart: Choubard, fl. ca. 1810-1830

namePart: Kotzebue, Otto von, 1787-1846

namePart: Massard, L. (Léopold), 1812-1889

text: Indians of North America

text: Clothing

text: Indians of North America

text: Rites and ceremonies

text: L. Massard del., Choubard sc. Lower left: 83.

text: Lower center: Voy. Autour du Monde, Kotzebue, pag. 120.

text: A plate from Otto von Kotzebue's Voyage autour du monde.

text: Depicts an Indian in a blue feathered costume, full length to right, standing on right foot, eyes front, arms outstretched with a pole in his left hand. His body, divided vertically, is painted two different colors.

title: Californie indien dansant

text: Prints

extent: Stipple engraving, colored, vignette, image: 17.5 x 10 cm.


title: [Circle dance]

callNumber: *MGZFD Cir 1

text: Court dancing

text: France

text: Circle dances

text: Lower left:  L. Perret sculps.

title: [Circle dance]

abstracts: Several people performing a circle dance of the Middle Ages in a palace or fortress.  The women are wearing floor-length dresses with sleeves to the wrist and long panels from the shoulder.  The men wear belted doublets, striped hose and fencing masks. Courtiers watch from a balcony at back.

text: Prints


title: Closerie des lilas

originInfo: 18601869ParisLemercier & Cie

callNumber: *MGZFD Clo 1

namePart: Imprimerie Lemercier et cie

text: Cancan (Dance)

text: Ballrooms

text: France

text: Lower left: Paris. Ancne. Mon. Martinet. Lower right: Imp. Lemercier & Cie. Paris. Beneath image: Closerie des Lilas 58.

title: Closerie des lilas

abstracts: Depicts evening at the pleasure garden Closerie des Lilas, which opened to the public in Paris, 1847. Crowd dancing around a brightly lit pavilion in an outdoor setting.  Can can dancers shown at front and center.

text: Prints

extent: 1 print : lithograph, col. ; 17 x 25 cm.


title: Bal donné à la cour de Henri III à l'occasion du mariage d'Anne duc de Joyeuse avec Marguerite de Lorraine, 24 Septemb. 1581

originInfo: 18001899Parisimp. Chardon J'ne

callNumber: *MGZFD Clo F Bal 1

namePart: Clouet, François, -1572

text: Dance

text: France

text: 16th century

text: Balls (Parties)

text: An engraving by Giroux after a painting by Clouet.

abstracts: Eleven men and women perform a circle dance while other courtiers stand about.

text: Prints

extent: Engraving mounted on rice paper, image: 17 x 26.7 cm.


title: Le Colin Maillard

callNumber: *MGZFD Col 1

text: Dance

text: France

text: 18th century

text: Maypole and May dances

text: Perhaps a 19th century restrike of an 18th century engraving.

title: Le Colin Maillard

abstracts: A bucolic scene with two couples in the foreground playing blind man's buff. There is a maypole dance background right.

text: Prints


title: Grown gentlemen taught to danceengraved after an original picture of Mr. John Collett, in the possession of Mr. Bradford

originInfo: 1767-06-27Londonpublished by T. Bradford, no. 132 Fleet Street

callNumber: *MGZFD Col J Gro 1

text: Dance

text: England

text: 18th century

text: Dance teachers

text: Musicians

text: Dance

text: Caricatures and cartoons

text: J. Collett pinxit; J. Goldar sculpsit.

title: Grown gentlemen taught to dance: engraved after an original picture of Mr. John Collett, in the possession of Mr. Bradford

abstracts: A short, chubby dancing master, with a book in his coat pocket bearing the title The Lad's a Dunce, partners a tall, oafish student. A somnolent musician, seated at left, accompanies them on the violin. A man sits on a bench at back, his feet forced into a narrow turnout box. Two cats play inside the violinist's case.

text: Prints


title: Grown gentlemen taught to danceengraved after an original picture of Mr. John Collett, in the possession of Mr. Smith

originInfo: 1768-08-20Londonprinted for J'n Smith, no. 35, in Cheapside

callNumber: *MGZFD Col J Gro 2

text: Dance

text: England

text: 18th century

text: Dance

text: Caricatures and cartoons

text: Dance teachers

text: A more detailed version of the engraving published the previous year by T. Bradford, *MGZFD  Col J  Gro 1.

text: Reproduced in Lillian Moore, Images of the Dance, 1965, p. 21.

title: Grown gentlemen taught to dance: engraved after an original picture of Mr. John Collett, in the possession of Mr. Smith

abstracts: A short, squat dancing master partners a tall male pupil. A musician seated at left accompanies them on the violin. A man sits on a bench at back, his feet in a turned out position. Two cats and a dog play in the foreground. On the wall is a print or painting of "Madame Elastique," almost certainly Anne Auretti.

text: Prints


title: [Contredanses] L'anglaise

callNumber: *MGZFD Con 1

namePart: Le Bas, Michel Olivier, 1783-1843

text: Ballroom dancing

text: 19th century

text: Contredanses

text: Lower right: Lebas sc.

title: [Contredanses] L'anglaise

abstracts: Two trios advance between two lines of dancers, men and women vis-à-vis.

text: Prints


title: Corteggio del re di Benino

originInfo: 18001899Paris?N. Rémond imp.

callNumber: *MGZFD Cor R 1

text: Dance, Black

text: Nigeria

text: History

text: Pictorial works

text: lot #105.

text: Purchase at auction; Mme. Gilberte Cournand; 1998/02/26;

title: Cortège du roi de Benin

title: Corteggio del re di Benino

abstracts: Image depicts a group of dark-skinned figures, mostly shirtless and wearing white sarongs, engaged in dance and celebration; some play tambourines and drums.  Also pictured are two leopards being led by a rope and a man on a horse who appears to be royalty.  In the background are large buildings and a group of armed men on horseback holding spears.

text: Prints


title: Jeune dame répétant une danse

originInfo: 17901799Parischez Ernauts et Rapilly

callNumber: *MGZFD Cos 1

text: Below image: Le Clere del., Jannet direx.

text: Apparently a plate from a costume book.

title: Jeune dame répétant une danse

abstracts: A female figure poised on her left foot, holding her skirt with her left hand. She is wearing a simple white bonnet and an overskirt trimmed with lace.

text: Prints

extent: Engraving, colored, line border: 25 x 18.5 cm.


title: Costume de bal

originInfo: 18101819Parischez Martinet

callNumber: *MGZFD Cos 2

title: Costume de bal

abstracts: A curly headed young man dances with two female partners. They are dressed in standard attire of the period.

text: Prints


title: Costume ball

callNumber: *MGZFD Cos 3

text: Dance

text: France

text: 19th century

text: Masquerades

text: Balls (Parties)

title: Costume ball

abstracts: A costume ball, perhaps in a Paris pleasure garden. The men's costumes are mainly Middle Eastern or military attire. The woman of the central couple is viewed from the back. Her partner is wearing a turban, short jacket and knee-length trousers.

text: Prints

extent: Lithograph, colored, cropped to 23 x 35 cm.


title: Côté du grand balcon

callNumber: *MGZFD Cot 1

namePart: Cochin, Charles Nicolas, 1688-1754

text: Balls (Parties)

text: Masquerades

text: lot #63.

title: Côté du grand balcon

abstracts: Image depicts courtiers gathered in five balconies, as well as on the ground level of a ballroom.  They are dressed in 18th-century ball attire: masks, gowns, cloaks, and other costumes.  Chandiliers hang from the ceiling and candellabras hang on the ornately decorated walls of the room.

text: Prints

extent: 1 print : engraving, b&w ; 21 x 33 cm., affixed to sheet 27 x 37 cm.


title: [Country scene]

callNumber: *MGZFD Cou 1

text: Birdcages

text: Musicians

text: Dancers

text: lot #63.

title: [Country scene]

abstracts: Trees and flowering vines create an oval shaped border presenting four figures in 18th-century attire: a girl holds her skirt as she dances; a boy stands playing a drum; another boy stands holding a pole; a small child wearing a large hat and ruff sits on the ground, also playing drums.  A bird cage rests along the border in the foreground.  The center of the design is empty.

text: Prints

extent: 1 print : engraving, b&w ; image 11 x 13 cm., on sheet 14 x 21 cm.


title: Danse des nègres

callNumber: *MGZFD Cou Dan 1

namePart: Couchè

text: Dance, Black

text: Algeria

text: History

text: Pictorial works

text: dessiné et gravé par Couché.

type: date

text: Dated in pencil, on recto: 1840.

text: On recto, upper left: Mon voyage en Algérie.  Possibly a plate from Mon voyage en Algérie : racont́ à mes enfans, par Napoléon Roussel.

text: lot #105.

title: Danse des nègres

abstracts: Image depicts a line of men dancing in pairs, each man holding a staff and wearing white pantaloons.  In the foreground accompanists play percussion instruments.  In the background men gather in conversation near white buildings.

text: Prints


title: Covent Garden Theatreto be opened this evening

callNumber: *MGZFD Cov 1

text: Covent Garden Theatre

text: Theaters

text: England

text: London

type: source note

text: From an engraving by Smyth, printed on p. 484 of The illustrated London news: May 15, 1858.

text: Printed on verso is p. 483 of the The illustrated London news; page contains a small article describing the architectural features of the newly rebuilt theatre.

text: Gift; John Taras; 2004.

text: The Covent Garden Theatre was destroyed by fire in 1856.  The new building (also called the Royal Opera House) was designed by Edward Middleton Barry and opened on May 15, 1858 with a performance of Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots.

title: Covent Garden Theatre: to be opened this evening

subTitle: to be opened this evening

abstracts: Image depicts a crowd, including horses and carriages, gathered outside of the Covent Garden Theatre in London.

text: Prints


title: An introductionGay moments of logic, Jerry, Tom and Corinthian Kate

originInfo: 1820-11-01Londonpub'd by Sherwood, Nealy & Jones

callNumber: *MGZFD Cru G C 1

namePart: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878

namePart: Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856

text: Dance

text: England

text: 19th century

text: Dance

text: Caricatures and cartoons

text: Lower right: Drawn & engraved by I. R. & G. Cruikshank.

title: An introduction: Gay moments of logic, Jerry, Tom and Corinthian Kate

abstracts: A drawing room in which one couple flirts on a sofa at left while another couple dances at center. The singularly unattractive pianist leers at them.

text: Prints

extent: Aquatint, colored, line border: 11 x 18.5 cm.


title: Life on tip toe, or Dick Wildfire quadrilling it in the Salon des Mars in the Champs-Elysées

originInfo: 1822-06-15Londonpublished by John Franklin

callNumber: *MGZFD Cru G C 2

text: Dance

text: Caricatures and cartoons

text: Quadrilles

text: Lower left: drawn and engraved by Mr. George Cruikshank.

abstracts: A pleasure garden with several couples engaged in a lively dance. There are spectators and a waiter serving a man at table at right.

text: Prints


title: Striking effects produced by lines and dots

originInfo: 1817-08-04Londonpub'd by S. W. Fores

callNumber: *MGZFD Cru G C 3

namePart: Fores, S. W

text: Dance

text: Caricatures and cartoons

abstracts: Approximately twenty humorous groupings of stick figures, with captions, performing various activities, such as fencing, dancing, boxing, horseback riding, and rope dancing.

text: Prints


title: Highest life in London

callNumber: *MGZFD Cru G Hig 1

text: Ballroom dancing

text: Dance orchestras

text: Lower right: Drawn and engraved by I. R. and G. Cruikshank.

title: Highest life in London

abstracts: Caption: Tom and Jerry "sporting a toe" among the Corinthians at Almacks in the west. A smartly dressed crowd dancing or conversing. At right is a loge with a small orchestra.

text: Prints

extent: Aquatint, colored, line border: 11 x 19 cm.


title: La Poule

originInfo: 1817-06-04Londonpub'd by H Humphrey

callNumber: *MGZFD Cru G Pou 1

text: Dance

text: Caricatures and cartoons

text: Quadrilles

text: Lower left: etched by G. Cruikshank.

text: Gift of Lillian Moore.

title: La Poule

abstracts: A caricature of a dozen dancers performing a quadrille figure. The women tend to be rather chesty and taller than their partners. The men all point their feet and attempt to dance elegantly. The women's coiffures are also a subject of satire.

text: Prints


title: La Promenade

originInfo: 1835-08-01Londonpub'd by Tho's McLean

callNumber: *MGZFD Cru G Pro 1

text: Quadrilles

text: Lower left: Etched by G. Cruik'k.

title: La Promenade

abstracts: Two couples in a drawing room executing a quadrille figure.

text: Prints

extent: Etching, colored, line border: 12 x 15.6 cm.


title: Vis à vis - accidents in quadrille dancing

originInfo: 1817-04-15Londonpub'd by H. Humphrey, St. James's Street

callNumber: *MGZFD Cru G Vis 1

namePart: Humphrey, Hannah, fl. 1774-1817

text: Dance

text: England

text: 19th century

text: Dancing injuries

text: Quadrilles

text: Musicians

text: Lower left: G. Cruikshank fect.

type: reproduction

text: Reproduced in Dance magazine, April 1951, p. 20.

abstracts: A man crashes to the floor, his feet out behind him, as he clutches his partner's dress. The shocked spectators consist of women with low-cut, revealing dresses and escorts with absurdly high collars; two leering musicians (a harpist and a fiddler) on a raised platform at left.

text: Prints

extent: Etching, colored, plate mark: 21.5 x 25.8 cm.


title: The three graces

originInfo: 18401849New Yorklith. & pub. by N. Currier, 152 Nassau cor. Spruce St.

callNumber: *MGZFD Cur N Thr 1

namePart: Currier, Nathaniel, 1813-1888

text: Cerrito, Fanny

type: titleInfo

text: Graces

text: Elssler, Fanny, 1810-1884

text: Graces

text: Taglioni, Marie, 1804-1884

text: Graces

text: Graces, The

text: Based on a lithograph published in Paris and London in 1844, after a design by Lejeune.

text: Cf. *MGZA  Dance perspectives, no. 15, 1962. Color reproduction and commentary.

title: The three graces

abstracts: The central figure, representing Elssler as Florinda in Le diable boiteux, faces right, and is supported on her right by Taglioni in La sylphide, and on her left by Cerrito in the "pas de Diane" from La jolie fille de Gand.  The name of each dancer is within a wreath at her feet.

text: Prints

extent: Lithograph, colored, rounded corners, 29.5 x 21 cm.


title: Mazurkas

originInfo: 18401850PhiladelphiaNew YorkW. Dubois

callNumber: *MGZFD Dac H Pol 1

namePart: Dacre, Henry, b. ca. 1820

namePart: Wolff, Edouard, 1816-1880

namePart: P.S. Duval & Co

text: composed by Ed. Wolff ; on stone by H. Dacre.

text: P.S. Duval, Lith. Phila.

text: Gift; Lillian Moore.

text: According to George Chaffee (see reference above), this is a "[v]ersion of a French music-title study by Janet Lange-- of [Carlotta] Grisi-[Lucien] Petipa or [Fanny] Cerrito-[Arthur] St. Leon, we forget which." Janet-Lange, 1815-1872, was a French illustrator whose works included depictions of dance and theatre productions.

text: The mazurka, which became popular as a ballroom dance in mid-nineteenth century Europe, had its roots in the Polish folk dance called the mazurek. Originally a lively dance in triple meter, the mazurka became popular in many countries and across many years, both as a dance and a musical form. This print may depict a version of the mazurka danced on the ballet stage. A notable example occurred in Joseph Mazilier's ballet Le diable à quatre (1845), whose main character, performed by Carlotta Grisi, was called Mazourka.

title: Les polonaises. Mazurkas

title: Mazurkas

type: alternative

abstracts: Sheet music cover illustration depicting a dancing couple in Polish folk costume in a landscape setting.

text: Prints

text: Sheet music covers

extent: 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored ; 32 x 26 cm.

place:
Philadelphia
New York


title: Danse fantastique

originInfo: 18401849Parischez Aubert

callNumber: *MGZFD Dan 1

namePart: Monnier, Henry, 1799-1877

type: topic

text: Dance

text: Caricatures and cartoons

text: Crabs

text: Animals in human situations

text: Lower left: lith. de Delaporte. Lower right: Henry Monnier.

title: Danse fantastique

text: Prints


title: [Dancing girls]

callNumber: *MGZFD Dan 2

text: Dance

type: geographic

text: India

text: Musicians

text: Musical instruments

text: India

title: [Dancing girls]

abstracts: Three Indian dancing girls at left, accompanied by seven musicians. Several men are entering the room through a large door at back.

text: Prints

extent: Aquatint, colored, image: 14.5 x 19.5 cm.


title: Danseur chinois

callNumber: *MGZFD Dan 3

text: Dance

text: China

text: Chinoiserie (Art)

text: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein.

title: Danseur chinois

abstracts: A male figure full length to the right, balancing on his left foot, his right knee raised to front. He is wearing a conical straw hat, belted jacket, loose pants, and sabots with sharply spiked heels. Rock formations and a pagoda in the background.

text: Prints


title: Danza detta la Candiotta

callNumber: *MGZFD Dan 4

text: Tsakonikos (Dance)

text: Folk dancing, Greek

text: Musicians

text: Lower right: Lanti inc.

title: Danza detta la Candiotta

abstracts: Nine men and women, possibly Greek, performing a chain dance among ancient ruins. Four musicians accompany them on a lute, bagpipe, a wind instrument, and a drum. They are all wearing caps or turbans. The women are wearing overskirts and the men loose trousers to the knee.

text: Prints

extent: Engraving, colored, line border: 16.5 x 24 cm.


title: Danseuse

callNumber: *MGZFD Dan 5

text: Ballerinas

text: Signed lower right:  Bronitz (?)

title: Danseuse

abstracts: A female dancer in a tutu, in fourth position croisée.

text: Prints

form: Aquatints Etchings

extent: Aquatint and etching, colored, plate mark: 28.5 x 23.6 cm.


title: Danseuse à la barre

callNumber: *MGZFD Dan 6

text: Ballerinas

text: Signed lower right:  Bronitz (?).

title: Danseuse à la barre

abstracts: A female dancer in a tutu, in a fourth position lunge.  Another dancer, partially visible, stretches at the barre.

text: Prints

extent: Aquatint and etching, colored, plate mark: 25.7 x 19.7 cm.


title: [Dancers in theatrical folk costume]

callNumber: *MGZFD  Dan 7

text: Dancers

type: temporal

text: 19th century

text: Musicians

text: Title devised by cataloger.

text: Gift; Lillian Moore.

title: [Dancers in theatrical folk costume]

abstracts: Representation of two dancers in a landscape. Their garments appear to be theatricalized folk costumes, particularly the man's close-fitting white tights. In the background, a second man accompanies them on a wind instrument.

text: Prints

extent: 1 print : aquatint, hand-colored ; 25 x 21 cm.


title: [Dancers bowing before the minuet?]

callNumber: *MGZFD  Dan 8

text: Ballroom dancing

text: 18th century

text: Minuet (Dance)

text: Stringed instruments

text: Title devised by cataloger.

text: Gift; Lillian Moore.

title: [Dancers bowing before the minuet?]

abstracts: Representation of a man and a woman in eighteenth-century attire, facing each other and poised to bow, perhaps to begin a minuet. Two musicians accompany them at right. At left is a seated man with a cane, with a second couple behind him. The setting is an interior with a pillar and window in the background.

text: Prints


title: La danse de l'Almée

callNumber: *MGZFD Dan A 1

text: Dance

text: Middle East

text: 19th century

text: tambourines

text: le cte. de Forbin pinx, Baron del.

text: Above print, on recto, center: L'Artiste

text: lot #105.

text: L'Artiste was a contemporary art review published in Paris between 1831 and 1845.

title: La danse de l'Almée

abstracts: Image depicts female figure dancing outside a temple-like building amongst a group of seated men.  She wears a full white gown and a scarf and waves a tambourine over her head. The men, dressed in Middle-Eastern attire, partake in drink and play instruments.

text: Prints

extent: 1 print : lithograph, b&w ; image 14 x 19 cm., on sheet 22 x 30 cm.


title: La dance de Laloÿeau

callNumber: *MGZFD Dan C Dan 1

namePart: Danckerts, Cornelis, active 1637-1684

type: personal

text: Dance

text: 17th century

text: Circle dances

text: Barrels

text: Musicians

text: C. Danckerts exc. cum privilegio.

title: La dance de Laloÿeau

abstracts: Three women and two men perform a chain dance around a large barrel in an outdoor setting. The women wear high head-dresses (fontange), gowns with frills at elbows, ornamental aprons. The men wear periwigs, hats, justaucorps with large cuffs, high-heeled shoes. Two men stand on the barrel. One holds a large triangle and bell, the other turns a hurdy-gurdy.

text: Prints

extent: Engraving in line border, colored, border: 24 x 18 cm.


title: A Scotch reel

originInfo: 1776-07-11Londonpub. by M. Darly, 39 Strand

callNumber: *MGZFD Dar M C 1

namePart: Darly, Matthias

text: Dance

text: Caricatures and cartoons

text: Hairdressing

text: Reels and strathspeys

title: A Scotch reel

abstracts: Two couples dancing a reel.  The ladies wear enormous feathered coiffures.  Man on left is short and very fat, he walks rather than dances.  Man on right dances energetically, left arm raised.

text: Prints


title: The Bengall minuet

originInfo: 1773-11-03Londonpub'd by M. Darly, Strand

callNumber: *MGZFD Dar M C 2

text: Minuet (Dance)

text: Dance

text: England

text: 18th century

title: The Bengall minuet

abstracts: A paneled room without furniture; two figures in profile face each other in a minuet. On the left is an elderly man wearing a toupet-wig with a black bag. His partner is a sharp-featured woman with her hair dressed high and ornamented on the top with lace. She wears a low dress with elbow sleeves, long gloves, and a train. The figures are perhaps satirical portraits of some "nabob" and his wife preparing for a London season.

text: Prints

extent: Engraving, colored, line border: 15 x 23.5 cm.


title: Grown ladies taught to dance

originInfo: 1768-01-01Londonpublished by M. Darly at nos. 39, Strand, & 120, Fleet Street

callNumber: *MGZFD Dar M C 3

namePart: Dodd, Daniel

authority: ulan

namePart: Crotchet, P., fl. 1768

text: Dance

text: England

text: 18th century

text: Dance

text: Caricatures and cartoons

text: Musicians

text: M. Darly invt., engraved from an original picture of Mr. D. Dodd; P. Crotchet sculpt.

title: Grown ladies taught to dance

abstracts: A matronly lady in a voluminous dress dances with an emaciated, elderly man. He is wearing a frock coat with deep cuffs, knee breeches, and a wig bag. A woman sits on a chair at back, awaiting her turn. Her headdress consists of a curving row of tight curls. A dog dances on his hind legs, while a monkey plays with a fan. A man, seated at right, idly strums a lute or guitar. Paintings on the wall include the depiction of a man leading a trained bear. Paintings on the wall include the depiction of a man leading a trained bear.

text: Prints


title: Le pas grave

originInfo: 1777Londonpub'd by M. Darly

callNumber: *MGZFD Dar M C 4

text: Dance

text: England

text: 18th century

text: Dance

text: Caricatures and cartoons

title: Le pas grave

abstracts: A large woman, with the enormous coiffure of the day, performs a stately dance with her smaller partner; he dances with his thumbs touching his index fingers.

text: Prints


title: The village assembly

originInfo: 1776-07-01Londonpub'd by M. Darly, 39 Strand

callNumber: *MGZFD Dar M C 5

text: Dance

text: England

text: 18th century

text: Dance

text: Caricatures and cartoons

text: Musicians

title: The village assembly

abstracts: Six couples dance in a large room, unadorned except for sconces on the wall. The women are dressed in a variety of styles. Two musicians background right.

text: Prints


title: Croquis dramatiques

callNumber: *MGZFD  Dau H Dir 1

namePart: Daumier, Honoré, 1808-1879

text: Dancers

text: France

text: 19th century

text: Dancers

text: Caricatures and cartoons

text: Castanets

text: Series caption title: Croquis dramatiques.

text: Purchase; Craig Flinner Gallery, Baltimore, 1993.

text: Honoré Daumier, the French lithographer, draftsman, and painter, was known for his scathing social commentary. He contributed many caricatures and cartoons to Le Charivari.

text: Le Charivari, an illustrated newspaper, was published in Paris from 1833 to 1937. Though its original aim was political commentary, it turned to more generalized satire after an official ban on political caricature.

title: Dire-- que dans mon temps, moi aussi, j'ai été une brillante Espagnole-- maintenant je n'ai plus d'espagnol que les castagnettes!-- c'est bien sec!

title: Le Charivari

abstracts: Cartoon published in the French satirical periodical Le Charivari. It depicts an elderly woman standing in the wings of a theatre, wistfully  watching a female dancer onstage performing a Spanish dance, her hands curved as if holding castanets.

text: Prints


title: Ernestine comt: de Durazzo née C: Weissenwolff ambassadrice imperiale a Venise

callNumber: *MGZFD  Dav G Dur 1

namePart: David, Giovanni, 1743-1790

namePart: Vitalba, Giovanni, 1738-1792

namePart: Durazzo, Giacomo, 1717-1794

text: Weissenwolff Durazzo, Ernestine Aloisia, contessa, 1732-1794

text: Collectors and collecting

text: History

text: 18th century

text: Collectors and collecting

text: Italy

text: Venice

text: David gen. in. et ornau. ; Vitalba vultum perfec.

text: Caption title.

text: Gift, Walter Toscanini, 1970.

text: Among his many achievements, Count Giacomo Durazzo was appointed director of the imperial theatres in Vienna in 1754. He fostered Christoph Willibald Gluck's reforms of the Italian opera.

text: Giovanni David, a painter and printmaker from Cabella Ligure in the region of Genoa, was first active in Rome. In 1775, he moved to Venice where he was a protégé of Count Giacomo Durazzo from Genoa, imperial ambassador to the court of Vienna.

text: The printmaker Giovanni Vitalba studied with Joseph Wagner in Venice and worked with Francesco Bartolozzi.

abstracts: A profile portrait of Ernestine Durazzo, née Weissenwolf, spouse of the diplomat, bibliophile and collector Giacomo Durazzo, appears within an oval. A frame surrounding the oval is decorated with two books, a cushion, a stringed instrument and sheet of music, two doves, and a bow and quiver of arrows. This print served as a pendant to the etched portrait of Count Giacomo Durazzo.

text: Prints

text: Portraits

form: Etchings Aquatints

extent: 1 print : etching, aquatint ; 44 x 30 cm., plate mark 27 x 21.3 cm.


title: Costumes de théâtre de 1600 à 1820

callNumber: *MGZFD Del F 2

namePart: Delpech, François Séraphin, 1778-1825

namePart: Lecomte, Hippolyte, 1781-1857

text: Dance

text: France

text: 17th century

text: Costume designs

text: 17th century

text: Lith. de Delpech. Plate from Costumes de théâtre de 1600 à 1820.

text: Costume dated on lithograph as from 1648.

title: Le capitan Matamore

title: Costumes de théâtre de 1600 à 1820

type: uniform

abstracts: A male figure wearing a hat with plumes, straight doublet, long breeches, soft boots, cape over right shoulder, and a sword.

text: Prints


title: Costumes de théâtre de 1600 à 1820

callNumber: *MGZFD Del F 3

text: Costume designs

text: 17th century

text: Ballet

text: France

text: 17th century

text: Diana (Roman deity)

text: Plate from Costumes de théâtre de 1600 à 1820. Costume dated on lithograph as from the reign of Louis XIV.

title: Costume de Diane

title: Costumes de théâtre de 1600 à 1820

abstracts: A female figure wearing a small cap with plumes, a blouse gathered at the elbow, and an ankle-length skirt with ornamented overskirt. She is holding a bow in her right hand.

text: Prints

extent: Lithograph, colored, vignette, image: 17 x 14 cm.


title: Costumes de théâtre de 1600 à 1820

callNumber: *MGZFD Del F 4

text: Dance

text: France

text: 17th century

text: Costume designs

text: 17th century

text: Lower right: Lith. de Delpech. Plate from Costumes de théâtre de 1600 à 1820.

text: Costume dated on lithograph as from 1650.

title: Narcisin Malalbergo

title: Costumes de théâtre de 1600 à 1820

abstracts: A male figure dressed in the style of country people: high-crowned hat, plain buttoned doublet, unfitted breeches and cape.

text: Prints

extent: Lithograph, vignette, colored, image: 18 x 16 cm.


title: Costumes de théâtre de 1600 à 1820

callNumber: *MGZFD Del F 5

text: Ballet

text: France

text: 17th century

text: Costume designs

text: 17th century

text: Costume dated on lithograph as from 1680.

title: Divinité infernale

title: Costumes de théâtre de 1600 à 1820

abstracts: A male figure holding snakes in each hand. The snakes are wrapped around each outstretched arm. The costume consists of a large headdress with plumes, breast plate, and flared skirt with spiked finish at the bottom.

text: Prints

extent: Lithograph, vignette, colored, image: 20.5 x 17 cm.


title: Costumes de théâtre de 1600 à 1820

callNumber: *MGZFD Del F 6

text: Dance

text: France

text: 17th century

text: Costume designs

text: 17th century

text: Costume dated on print as from 1620.

title: Scapin

title: Costumes de théâtre de 1600 à 1820

abstracts: A male figure, full length, wearing a flat lace collar, doublet with skirt, calf-length breeches and cape. The doublet and breeches are trimmed with frogging from the neck to the calf.

text: Prints

extent: Lithograph, vignette, colored, image: 17 x 16 cm.


title: Costumes de théâtre de 1600 à 1820

callNumber: *MGZFD Del F 7

text: Dance

text: France

text: 17th century

text: Costume designs

text: 17th century

text: Costume dated on print as from 1634.

title: Guillot Corju

title: Costumes de théâtre de 1600 à 1820

abstracts: A male figure, full length to the right, wearing a soft high-crowned hat, grotesque mask, flat lace collar, doublet, and tights.

text: Prints

extent: Lithograph, vignette, colored, image: 20 x 16 cm.


title: Costumes de théâtre de 1600 à 1820

callNumber: *MGZFD Del F 8

text: Dance

text: France

text: 17th century

text: Costume designs

text: 17th century

title: Jodelet

title: Costumes de théâtre de 1600 à 1820

abstracts: A male figure wearing a large soft hat, striped doublet and calf-length breeches, belt with a wooden dagger, and cape. He is holding a money bag in his left hand.

text: Prints

extent: Lithograph, vignette, colored, image: 19.6 x 16.5 cm.


title: Costumes de théâtre de 1600 à 1820

callNumber: *MGZFD Del F 9

text: Dance

text: France

text: 17th century

text: Costume designs

text: 17th century

title: Gros Guillaume

title: Costumes de théâtre de 1600 à 1820

abstracts: A fat bearded man wearing a flat cap, long shirt tied under the arms and at the hips, loose striped pants, soft boots. Costume dated on lithograph as from 1650.

text: Prints

extent: Lithograph, vignette, colored, image: 19.3 x 15 cm.


title: Costumes de théâtre de 1600 à 1820

callNumber: *MGZFD Del F 10

text: Dance

text: France

text: 17th century

text: Costume designs

text: 17th century

title: Giangurgolo, noble Calabrois

title: Costumes de théâtre de 1600 à 1820

abstracts: A male figure looking to the right, wearing a high crowned hat, nose mask, flat lace collar, doublet, sash, trunk hose, breeches, cape, long sword.

text: Prints

extent: Lithograph, vignette, colored, image: 20 x 17 cm.


title: Costumes de théâtre de 1600 à 1820

callNumber: *MGZFD Del F 11

text: Ballet

text: France

text: 18th century

text: Costume designs

text: 18th century

text: Costume dated on lithograph as from 1710.

title: Costume de l'Amour

title: Costumes de théâtre de 1600 à 1820

abstracts: A youthful male figure wearing wings, neck band, flesh-colored shirt, sash, flared skirt, and gold belt with tabs. He is holding a bow in his right hand.

text: Prints

extent: Lithograph, vignette, colored, image: 18.5 x 15 cm.


title: Costumes de théâtre de 1600 à 1820

callNumber: *MGZFD Del F 12

text: Ballet

text: France

text: 17th century

text: Costume designs

text: 17th century

title: Costume de bacchante

title: Costumes de théâtre de 1600 à 1820

abstracts: A female figure poised on her left foot, her right arm curving by her head. She is wearing a calf-length dress with a shorter overskirt. Her hair and costume are decorated with vines and flowers.

text: Prints


title: Costumes de théâtre de 1600 à 1820

callNumber: *MGZFD Del F 13

text: Dance

text: France

text: 17th century

text: Costume designs

text: 17th century

text: Lower right: Lith. de Delpech.

text: Plate from Costumes de théâtre de 1600 à 1820.

title: Turlupin

title: Costumes de théâtre de 1600 à 1820

abstracts: A bearded male figure wearing a large wide-brimmed hat, striped jacket and trousers, and cape. Costume dated on lithograph as from 1650.

text: Prints

extent: Lithograph, vignette, colored, image: 19 x 17 cm.


title: Costumes de théâtre de 1600 à 1820

callNumber: *MGZFD Del F 14

text: Ballet

text: France

text: 18th century

text: Costume designs

text: 18th century

text: Signed lower right: Lith. de Delpech.

title: Berger galant pour le divertissement du Retour du printems

abstracts: A male figure wearing a cocked hat with feather, periwig, one-piece costume with flared skirt. The costume is trimmed with ribbons, bows, clusters of flowers and lace.

text: Prints

extent: Lithograph, vignette, colored, image: 20 x 14 cm.


title: Costumes de théâtre de 1600 à 1820

callNumber: *MGZFD Del F 15

text: Ballet

text: France

text: 18th century

text: Costume designs

text: 18th century

text: Lower right: Lith. de Delpech.

text: Costume dated on lithograph as from 1730.

title: Laval dans le personnage d'un Fleuve

title: Laval dans le personnage d'un Fleuve

abstracts: A male figure costumed as a river god, wearing a cocked hat overgrown with swamp grass, vest, knee breeches, and a long frock coat with flared skirt. He is holding a plant for a walking stick.

text: Prints

extent: Lithograph, vignette, colored, image: 20.4 x 17 cm.


title: Costumes de théâtre de 1600 à 1820

callNumber: *MGZFD Del F 16

text: Ballet

text: France

text: 18th century

text: Costume designs

text: 18th century

text: Lower right: Lith. de Delpech.

text: Costume dated on lithograph as from 1725.

title: Costume de sauvage

title: Costumes de théâtre de 1600 à 1820

abstracts: Male figure poised on his left foot. He is wearing a crown-like headdress of plumes, a flesh-colored covering for the upper torso, neck and wrist bands, knee breeches, and a flared skirt of decorated panels.

text: Prints

extent: Lithograph, vignette, colored, image: 21 x 14 cm.


title: Costumes de théâtre de 1600 à 1820

callNumber: *MGZFD Del F 17

text: Ballet

text: France

text: 18th century

text: Costume designs

text: 18th century

text: Lower right: Lith. de Delpech.

text: Costume dated on lithograph as from 1720.

title: Triton

title: Costumes de théâtre de 1600 à 1820

abstracts: Male figure, arms outstretched, wearing a cocked hat, tonnelet, and boots. The upper part of the costume suggests fish scales.

text: Prints

extent: Lithograph, vignette, colored, image: 21 x 15 cm.


title: Costumes de théâtre de 1600 à 1820

callNumber: *MGZFD Del F 18

text: Ballet

text: France

text: 18th century

text: Costume designs

text: 18th century

text: Lower right: Lith. de Delpech.

text: The costume design dates from circa 1720.

title: Les heures de la nuit

title: Costumes de théâtre de 1600 à 1820

abstracts: A female figure wearing an all-black costume consisting of a hood, bat wings, and long sleeved gown with flared skirt. The skirt is decorated with Roman numerals.

text: Prints

extent: Lithograph, vignette, colored, image: 21.5 x 13.5 cm.


title: Costumes de théâtre de 1600 à 1820

callNumber: *MGZFD Del F 19

text: Aeglé (Choreographic work : Laval, A and Laval, M)

text: Ballet

text: France

text: 18th century

text: Costume designs

text: 18th century

text: Costume dated on lithograph as from 1765.

title: Mlle Lazy, rôle de l'Amour dans Eglé

title: Mlle Lazy, rôle de l'Amour dans Eglé

abstracts: A female figure holding a bow in her left hand. She is wearing a headband, flesh-colored body stocking, a lace-trimmed garment draped mainly over the right side of her body, and garlands.

text: Prints

extent: Lithograph, vignette, colored, image: 16 x 12 cm.


title: Costumes de théâtre de 1600 à 1820

callNumber: *MGZFD Del F 20

text: Ballet

text: France

text: 17th century

text: Costume designs

text: 17th century

text: Lower left: Lith. de Delpech.

text: Costume dated on lithograph as from 1670.

title: Le Sieur Ballon, 1er danseur de Louis XIV

abstracts: A male figure full length to front, poised on his right foot. He is wearing a jeweled turban with plumes, a long wig of curls, elaborately decorated doublet and trunk hose, and shoes with bows.

text: Prints


title: Costumes de théâtre de 1600 à 1820

callNumber: *MGZFD Del F 1

text: Dance

text: France

text: 17th century

text: Commedia dell'arte

text: guitars

text: Costume designs

text: 17th century

title: J'ph Tortoreti dans le personnage de Scaramouche

abstracts: A male figure holding a guitar and wearing a soft cap, doublet with lace collar, cape over his left shoulder, and garters at the knee. Costume dated on lithograph as from 1600.

text: Prints


title: [Dancing girls]

originInfo: 18501859LondonJames Madden

callNumber: *MGZFD Dev A 1

namePart: Devéria, Achille, 1800-1857

text: Dance

text: Egypt

text: Finger cymbals

text: tambourines

text: Lower left: drawn on stone by Devéria.

title: [Dancing girls]

abstracts: Outdoor setting; two dancing girls holding finger cymbals, dancing to the accompaniment of a seated man striking a tambourine.

text: Prints

extent: Lithograph, colored, image: 36 x 25.6 cm.