title: Le diable boiteux

callNumber: *MGZFD Dia 1

namePart: Feillet

text: Dance

text: Caricatures and cartoons

text: Lower right: Lith. de Feillet.

title: Le diable boiteux

abstracts: Outdoor setting with caricatures of two women. The woman on the left is on her right pointe, her muscular left leg extended to the side. She is dancing with a scarf. The woman at right is wearing an exaggerated version of the attire of the day: a hat perched on her high coiffure, gloves, and a narrow-waisted dress with reinforced skirt similar to a tonnelet.

text: Prints


mmsType: Item

field: dateIssued

title: A long minuet as [danced at Bath], Longa Tysonum Minuit

callNumber: *MGZFD Dic W Lon 1

sourceSystem: mms

namePart: Dickinson, William, 1746 or 7-1823

type: personal

authority: naf

usage: primary

type: topic

authority: lcsh

text: Ballroom dancing

type: geographic

text: England

type: temporal

text: 18th century

text: Bath & North East Somerset (England)

text: Dance

text: Caricatures and cartoons

type: acquisition

text: lot #75.

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

abstracts: Image depicts man and woman standing side-by-side, engaged in dance.  The woman wears a white veil in her hair and a full violet gown, the skirt of which she holds with both hands.  The man wears black knickers and a red jacket; he bends his knees and holds his hat low in one hand.

authority: lctgm

text: Prints

extent: 1 print : engraving, hand col. ; 23 x 21 cm.

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)

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collectionTitle: Prints depicting dance


title: France, 1862, Zouave

originInfo: 1862Parisimp. Lemercier

callNumber: *MGZFD Dra J 1

text: Dance

text: France

text: 19th century

type: statement of responsibility

text: Lower left: Dess. et lith. par Draner.

title: France, 1862, Zouave

abstracts: A dance hall with a loge, background center, for musicians. In the foreground is a bearded man wearing the standard military attire of the Zouaves: a tasseled cap, short jacket, baggy trousers, and gaiters. At right is seen the leg of a high-kicking cancan dancer.

text: Prints

extent: Lithograph, colored on tinted ground, image: 29 x 19.7 cm.


title: The rival artistes

originInfo: 1832-07-17Londonpublished by Thos. McLean, 26 Haymarket

callNumber: *MGZFD Duc A C 1

namePart: Thomas MacLean (Firm)

type: corporate

authority: local

type: name

nameType: personal

text: Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845

text: Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 1769-1852

text: Dance

text: Caricatures and cartoons

text: Lower right: A. Ducôté's lithog. 70 St. Martinns Lane.

title: The rival artistes

abstracts: A political satire: Charles Grey and the Duke of Wellington are depicted as ballet dancers. Grey wears a large plumed hat and his tunic is slightly more ornate than that of the Duke, who is bareheaded. Each stands on the right foot, with the left leg extended. Grey: "That you shine in a pirouette, I readily admit, but for standing long, & steadily upon one leg, I flatter myself that I enjoy some reputation." Wellington: "I defy any man to turn round quicker than I can."

text: Prints


title: The Mathew-orama for 1824,or Pretty considerable d--d particular tit bits from America being all well at Natchitoches

callNumber: *MGZFD Duc A C 2

namePart: Hervieu, Auguste

authority: ulan

text: Dance, Black

text: United States

text: 19th century

text: Dance

text: Caricatures and cartoons

text: Aug. Hervieu del., A. Ducote lith.

title: The Mathew-orama for 1824, or Pretty considerable d--d particular tit bits from America being all well at Natchitoches

abstracts: A social satire on the variety of ethnic groups in the United States; fourteen people in an outdoor gathering, including an Irish improver of his fortune, a Dutch heiress, a Kentucky shoemaker, a French emigrant tailor and a runaway slave; thirteen dialect captions.

text: Prints


keyDate: yes

point: start

point: end

title: La kermesse flamande

callNumber: *MGZFD Dup J Ker 1

namePart: Duplessi-Bertaux, Jean, 1750-1818

namePart: Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640

text: Flanders

text: Folk dancing

text: 17th century

text: Rubens pinx., Duplessi-Bertaux aq. fort., Dupréd sculp.

title: La kermesse flamande

abstracts: An outdoor setting with tables and a dilapidated inn at left. Depicted are Flemish peasants of the 17th century at the height of an orgiastic revelry.  In the background several couples are performing a lusty dance.

text: Prints

form: Etchings Engravings

extent: Etching and engraving, plate mark: 32.5 x 40.5 cm.


field: dateCreated

title: [Peasant dance]

callNumber: *MGZFD Dur A 1

namePart: Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528

text: Dance

text: Germany

text: 16th century

type: reproduction

text: Quality reproduction of Dürer's 1514 etching.

title: [Peasant dance]

abstracts: Upper center: date and Dürer's monogram. Depicts a stocky German couple in a vigorous dance. The man is viewed from the back.

text: Prints


title: Hurdigurdiano joining in the wedding dance of Signora Fisketti

originInfo: 18001899Londonprinted for T. Bonen opposite the Hay Market Piccadilly

callNumber: *MGZFD Dwa 1

text: Dance

text: Caricatures and cartoons

text: Dwarfs

text: Musical instruments

abstracts: Two dwarfs dance to the accompaniment of a stringed instrument. Two stanzas of verse below image; ornamental border.

text: Prints


title: Une école de danse

originInfo: 18601869ParisImp. d'Aubert & Cie.

callNumber: *MGZFD Eco 1

text: Dance

text: Caricatures and cartoons

authority: tgm

text: Animals in human situations

title: Une école de danse

abstracts: Depicts a fat rat seated at background center. He has whiskers and is wearing a top hat and coat. Three female mice are dancing under his scrutiny. A fourth mouse is putting on her pointe shoes.

text: Prints

extent: Lithograph, colored, line border: 20 x 18.3 cm.


title: Paysan et paysane du cercle d'Eger

originInfo: 18201829VienneT. Mollo et Comp.

callNumber: *MGZFD  Ege 1

text: Clothing and dress

text: Hungary

text: Folk dancing, Hungarian

type: numbering

text: At lower right: 48.

text: Gift; Lincoln Kirstein, 1968.

type: biographical/historical

text: Eger is a city in northern Hungary.

text: This print may be a plate from a collection depicting Austrian and Hungarian costumes, published by T. Mollo. The title of this collection, like the captions of its plates, was in German and French: Kleidertrachten der Kaiser könig. Staaten = Habillemens des états de S.M. l'Empereur Roi.

title: Egerische Land-Leute beym Tanze

title: Paysan et paysane du cercle d'Eger

abstracts: Depiction of a woman and man in Hungarian folk costume, in dance movement.

text: Prints

extent: 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored ; 31 x 23 cm.


title: Costume Bild zur Theaterzeitungno. 97

originInfo: 18301839WienBureau der Theaterzeitung

callNumber: *MGZFD  Elf A Wil 1

namePart: Elfinger, Anton, 1821-1864

text: Pierrot (Fictitious character)

text: Pantomimes

text: Austria

text: Dancers

text: Austria

text: Vienna

text: 19th century

authority: aat

text: trombones

text: Cajetan [Pseudonym für Anton Elfinger]

type: source note

text: Series caption title: Costume Bild zur Theaterzeitung, no. 97.

text: At lower right:  Ged. b. [printed by] J. Rauh.

text: Gift; Lillian Moore.

text: Anton Elfinger, an Austrian physician, published his cartoons under the pseudonym Cajetan.

title: Scenen und Gruppen aus den Pantomimen der Brüder Lehmann Der Wilddieb und Lucifer und der Pächter

abstracts: Scenes from a theatrical work, the title of which may be roughly translated as The poacher, Lucifer, and the tenant [?], comprising a large central scene surrounded by six smaller images. In the central scene, the figure of Lucifer, with batlike wings, bursts from an upstairs window, upsetting a ladder and a man in eighteenth-century costume, who tumbles to the earth. The smaller images depict (clockwise from upper left) a dancing couple; a female dancer; a man in Pierrot costume and a naked black man with a club; a giant clutching the Pierrot figure in one hand; two acrobats or wrestlers wearing animal skins; and a musician with an outsize head carrying a trumpet, bellows, and sword.

text: Prints

extent: 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; 31 x 24 cm.


title: Ethiopian quadrilles,danced and sung by the Virginia minstrels, arranged by A. Nagerj Onyqjva

originInfo: 1843New Yorkpublished by Firth & Hall

callNumber: *MGZFD End G Eth 1

namePart: Endicott, George, 1802-1848

namePart: Firth & Hall

text: Dance, Black

text: United States

text: Quadrilles

text: Minstrel shows

text: Lower right: Lith. of Endicott.

title: Ethiopian quadrilles, danced and sung by the Virginia minstrels, arranged by A. Nagerj Onyqjva

abstracts: Music cover. Nine vignettes and caricatures with ornamental borders of leaves, cat fish and snakes. Blacks dancing, playing banjos and farming.

text: Prints

text: Vignettes

form:
Lithographs
Sheet music covers


title: Bal de la courtille

callNumber: *MGZFD Eng G C 1

namePart: Engelmann, G. (Godefroy), 1788-1839

text: Dance

text: France

text: 19th century

text: Dance

text: Caricatures and cartoons

text: Musicians

text: Lower right: Lith. de G. Engelmann.

title: Bal de la courtille

abstracts: Six rather unattractive peasants with large heads dancing in a courtyard. They are accompanied by a fiddle and a drum.

text: Prints

extent: Lithograph, colored, line border: 18 x 25.5 cm.


title: La danse de l'Almé à Bénisouëf

callNumber: *MGZFD Eng G Dan 1

text: Dancers

text: Egypt

text: Dance

text: Middle East

text: 19th century

text: tambourines

text: lith. de G. Engelmann.

text: Lower right: Fragonard ft. Upper right: Pl. 71.

text: lot #105.

text: In Egypt, an almé (almée, almah, or almeh) is a girl who dances or sings professionally.

title: La danse de l'Almé à Bénisouëf

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

text: Prints


title: [Peasants dancing]

callNumber: *MGZFD Eng M 1

namePart: Engelbrecht, Martin, 1684-1756

text: Folk dancing

text: 18th century

text: Peasants in art

text: Musicians

text: Lower right: Mart. Engelbrecht ex A. V.

title: [Peasants dancing]

abstracts: Various vignettes including seven of a peasant couple dancing, three musicians, and two commedia dell'arte figures.

text: Prints

extent: Engraving on gray paper, line border: 14 x 17.6 cm.


title: La danse

callNumber: *MGZFD Eng M 2

namePart: Rössler, Michael, 1705-1777

text: Dance

text: Germany

text: 18th century

text: Dance teachers

text: violins

type: content

text: Caption on left side: four lines of German verse.  On right side: four lines of French verse.

title: Das Tanzen

title: Das Tanzen

abstracts: Depicts an oval room with windows, mirror and fireplace in which five men are receiving a dancing lesson.  The dancing master stands on the right side facing left holding a violin.  Two men, seated on chairs on the left side, observe two others in the center.  These two face each other forward and back and stand in relévé in fourth position.  The fifth man  stands with hat in hand as if in a bow, on the far right side of the print.  All wear breeches, tights, waistcoats, justacorps, three-cornered hats and buckled shoes.

text: Prints

extent: Engraving, hand-colored, 20.6 x 31.0 cm.


title: [Vignettes]

callNumber: *MGZFD Eng M 3

text: Dance

text: Germany

text: 18th century

text: Outdoor games

text: Porticoes (Porches)

title: [Vignettes]

abstracts: Lower right: Mart. Engelbrecht ex A. V. Two social dance scenes, a cottage, a portico, four men playing a game with raquets and a ball, and commedia dell'arte figures.

text: Prints

text: Vignettes

extent: Engraving on gray paper, border: 14 x 18 cm.


title: Segen

callNumber: *MGZFD Eng M 4

text: Fencing

text: Lower right: Mart. Engelbrecht exc. A. V.

text: Two stanzas of verse, in German, below image.

title: Segen

abstracts: A man full length to front, his left hand at his waist, a foil in his right hand. He is wearing a cocked hat, waistcoat, and knee breeches. A terrace with two pair of fencers can be seen through an archway.

text: Prints

text: Poetry


title: Entrée triomphale des monumuents des sciences et arts en France

callNumber: *MGZFD Ent Tri 1

text: Dance

text: France

text: History

text: Revolution, 1789-1799

text: Processions

text: France

abstracts: Spectators watch a triumphal parade of animals and statuary from ancient cultures in a ceremonial setting. Statue of the goddess Athena enthroned before a colonnade is the focal point of the festive presentation.

text: Prints


title: Eskimos

callNumber: *MGZFD Esk 1

text: Eskimos

text: Clothing and dress

text: Folk dancing

text: tambourines

title: Eskimos

abstracts: Three Eskimo children dressed in heavy leggings and animal skins. Eskimo at left viewed from the back, his head covered with an animal skin; Eskimo at center standing on left foot, striking a tambourine with a bone; Eskimo at right crouching and leaning against a rock.

text: Prints

extent: Engraving, vignette, image: 13.2 x 24 cm.; plate mark: 23 x 28 cm.


title: The celebrated Ethiopian melodies

originInfo: 1844New Yorkpublished by C. G. Christman

callNumber: *MGZFD Eth 1

title: The celebrated Ethiopian melodies

abstracts: Three scenes in an ornamental border of the "Six Original Ethiopian Serenaders, or Boston Minstrels." Depicted are two musical numbers and a dance routine.

text: Prints

text: Sheet music covers


title: Danse du fandango

callNumber: *MGZFD Fan 1

text: Fandango (Dance)

text: Castanets

text: guitars

text: Lower right: m. h. Legrand.

title: Danse du fandango

abstracts: Couple in Spanish attire dancing at center, side by side, both on left demi-pointe, holding castanets. A couple at left watch, the man, viewed from the back, in toreador's attire. Musician with grotesque facial expression, seated at left, playing a guitar.

text: Prints

extent: Engraving, colored, in line border, image: 11.5 x 21 cm.


title: Le fandango

originInfo: 18501859Parischez Martinet

callNumber: *MGZFD Fan 2

namePart: Hahnemann, Mélanie, 1800-1878

text: Fandango (Dance)

text: Costume

text: Spain

text: Castanets

text: Lith. de Langlumé. Signed on stone: M'ia D'hervilly.

title: Le fandango

abstracts: A Spanish dancer, full length to the left, looking over her left shoulder. She is holding castanets in her raised hands and is wearing a long-sleeved dress, vest, and a scarf attached to her hair.

text: Prints

extent: Lithograph, vignette, colored, image: 21 x 18 cm.


title: Fédération Française

callNumber: *MGZFD Fed Fra 1

text: Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, prince de Bénévent, 1754-1838

text: Dance

text: France

text: History

text: Revolution, 1789-1799

text: Dance

text: France

text: 18th century

text: Bastille Day

text: Politics in art

text: France

text: Inscribed beneath image: Fédération Française. Inscribed by hand in pencil: 14 Juillet 1790. Talleyrand.

title: Fédération Française

abstracts: Possibly the oath given by Talleyrand at the Fête de la Fedération, which reorganized the French church on a democratic basis. Officials on a podium are watched by spectators in an outdoor setting. Men in the crowd brandish swords and carry Revolutionary caps on poles.

text: Prints


callNumber: *MGZFD Fed Gen 1

text: Couché, François-Louis, 1782-1849

text: Dance

text: France

text: History

text: Revolution, 1789-1799

text: Dance

text: France

text: 18th century

text: Bastille Day

text: Politics in art

text: France

text: Inscribed beneath image: Fédération Générale faite à Paris, le 14 Juillet, 1790. Inscribed lower left: Dessiné et gravé par Couché fils. Inscribed lower right: Terminé par Lejeune.

abstracts: Spectators gather at Champ de Mars, a vast parade ground, to view the presentation of federal troops. Part of the celebration marking the first anniversary of the taking of the Bastille. Probably dates from a slightly later year than the event represented.

text: Prints


title: Festivities and spectacles

callNumber: *MGZFD  Fes 1-5

text: Pageants

text: Europe

text: Horse ballet

text: Cupid (Roman deity)

text: Torch dances

text: At the lower left of each print is the following string of letters and Roman numerals: V.ü.d.K.IIAb.IIITh.

text: At the lower right of each print except N. 316, T. XLVIII are the words: M. [Moyen?] âge Tom III.

text: Title devised by cataloger.

text: Gift; Lincoln Kirstein.

title: Festivities and spectacles

abstracts: Plates, possibly from an unidentified festival book or illustrated history, chiefly depicting various sorts of festivities or performances. All are lavishly costumed; some include elaborate pageant cars or scenic elements. At top center, each print bears an Arabic number, preceded by the letter "N" on the first three items. At top right is the letter "T" followed by Roman numerals. Each print is described separately below.

text: Prints

extent: 5 prints : etching, engraving?, hand-colored ; 24 x 36 cm. or smaller, plate mark 19 x 28 cm. or smaller.


title: Sposalizio del gobbo nan

callNumber: *MGZFD Flo G 1

namePart: Floreani, Giovanni, 1486-1540

text: Dance

text: Caricatures and cartoons

text: Weddings

text: Musicians

text: Lower center: Gio. flor. for.

text: Possibly an eighteenth-century engraving after a woodcut book illustration by Giovanni Floreani.

title: Sposalizio del gobbo nan

abstracts: Two scenes from the wedding of the hunchbacked dwarf. Upper illustration: Dwarf, his wife and guests around table; food cooking on a spit, a cat and dog on the floor searching for food. Lower illustration: dwarf dancing with his unattractive wife to the accompaniment of a viola da gamba, bagpipe, lute, tambourine, and flute. She holds her right hand in his, lifting her dress with her left hand.

text: Prints

extent: Engraving, colored, image with text: 22.5 x 15 cm.


title: Folk and ethnic dancing on 19th-century music covers

callNumber: *MGZFD  Fol 1-5

text: Folk dancing

text: Dance music

text: Bayaderes

text: Saltarello (Dance)

text: Spanish dancing

text: Bayaderes Gift; Lillian Moore, 1967.

text: Saltarello Gift; Lillian Moore.

abstracts: Representations of folk or ethnic dancing from a variety of countries, created as illustrations for the covers of sheet music intended for home performance. Despite the exotic locales, the musical scores (not included in this collection) chiefly contain western musical forms.

typeOfResource:
still image
notated music

text: Prints

text: Sheet music covers

text: Scores

form: Lithographs Engravings

extent: 4 prints : lithograph, b&w ; 34 x 26 cm. or smaller.


title: [Folk dancers]

callNumber: *MGZFD  Fol 6

text: Folk dancing, Italian

text: Musicians

text: Title devised by cataloger.

title: [Folk dancers]

abstracts: Depiction of a woman and a man in ethnic costume, probably of a region in Italy, dancing in a landscape. The woman holds out her lace apron as she dances; the top of her garment is yellow, with full sleeves and a broad white collar, while her skirt is red trimmed in blue at the hem. Her tall black hat sports matching plumes of yellow, red, and blue. The man wears a similar black hat, with a white shirt, striped sash, blue breeches, and white stockings. He plays a lute as he dances. In the distance behind them is a Palladian-style house with columns.

text: Prints

extent: 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; 27 x 19 cm., plate mark 18 x 13 cm.


title: Le Moulinet, or practising quadrille dancing at home for fear of accidents at the ball

originInfo: 1817-04Londonpub'd by S W Fores, no. 50 Piccadilly

callNumber: *MGZFD For S C 1

namePart: Fores, S. W

text: Dance

text: England

text: 19th century

text: Dance

text: Caricatures and cartoons

text: Quadrilles

text: harps

text: An unsigned print depicting a drawing room in which four couples have linked hands and are performing a spirited quadrille figure in a circle. A man at right watches a woman play a harp. Another man is holding a fishing reel ("un moulinet"). A painting background left portrays a couple dancing; a painting on the right shows simians squatting.

text: Prints

extent: Etching, colored, image: 20.4 x 31.3 cm.


title: Three Graces; or The three Bums of the Op!ra

originInfo: 1813-03LondonS. W. Fores

callNumber: *MGZFD For S C 2

text: Dance

text: Caricatures and cartoons

text: Ballet

text: England

text: 19th century

abstracts: Three corpulent female dancers in flimsy costumes, the woman at center being viewed from the back. They are identified as D., C. and M.

text: Prints


title: [French social dancing]

callNumber: *MGZFD Fre 1

text: Dance

text: France

text: 18th century

text: Musicians

text: Anonymous print cropped to line border.

title: [French social dancing]

abstracts: Outdoor setting with the foliage suggesting an arbor. A couple is dancing at center. The man, wearing a frock coat, has his back to the viewer. The woman is wearing a dress with a low-cut square bodice and laced down the front to the waist. Villagers drink and chat in the background.

text: Prints

extent: Engraving, colored, line border: 26 x 18 cm.


title: Ruck-ruck-galophitch-hitch

originInfo: 1865New YorkFirth Son & Co.

callNumber: *MGZFD Gal 1

namePart: Helmsmüller, F. B.

namePart: Major & Knapp Engraving, Manufacturing & Lithographic Co

text: Ballroom dancing

text: 19th century

text: Galop (Dance)

text: par F.B. Helmsmüller.

text: Caption title.

text: Lith. of Major & Knapp, 449 Broadway, N.Y.

text: At top: A Mlle. Hélena Konrich, Oldenburg.

text: The galop was a ballroom dance that first became popular in the early nineteenth century.

title: Ruck-ruck-galop: hitch-hitch

subTitle: hitch-hitch

abstracts: Sheet music cover illustration depicting a dancing couple in evening attire.

text: Prints

text: Sheet music covers

extent: 1 print : lithograph on tinted ground, hand-colored ; 36 x 28 cm.


title: Danze dei Canadinani

callNumber: *MGZFD Gal G Dan 1

namePart: Gallina, Gallo, 1796-1874

text: Indians of North America

text: Canada

text: Folk dancing

text: G. Gallina inc.

text: Upper right corner, numbered: 33.  Likely a plate from a book, possibly: Costume antico e moderno (America) by Giulio Ferrario.

text: Gift; Mme. Gilberte Cournand; 1998.

title: Danze dei Canadinani

abstracts: Image depicts a group of indigenous Canadians.  In the center of the group a couple dances holding hands.  Around them others dance, play musical instruments, and stand watching.  In the background a group of men look on in repose.   The revelers appear in colorful skirts, earrings, and headdresses; some are naked; one onlooker leans on his rifle.

text: Prints

form: Engravings Aquatints

extent: 1 print : engraving, aquatint, hand col. ; image 16 x 22 cm., on sheet 21 x 33 cm.


title: [Primitive dancing]

callNumber: *MGZFD Gal G Pri 1

text: Folk dancing

text: Lower right: G. Gallina f.

text: Probably a plate from a book.

title: [Primitive dancing]

abstracts: An outdoor setting with seven large poles arranged in a circle. Twenty scantily clad natives are performing a variety of movements, including embracing, crouching, and dancing alone with wheat, branches, rattles, or spears in their hands.

text: Prints

extent: Aquatint, colored, line border: 18 x 29 cm.


title: [Egg dance]

callNumber: *MGZFD Gal J Egg 1

namePart: Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603

text: Costume

text: Belgium

text: 17th century

text: Folk dancing

text: Belgium

text: Egg dances

text: Musicians

text: Lower center: M[arten] de Vos invent. Lower right: Joan Galle excud.

text: On plate, at top: Has ducunt choreas, qui bacchanalia vivunt. Four line poem in French, below at left. Four line poem in Dutch at right.

text: Reproduced in Lillian Moore, Images of the dance [1965] p. 9.#

title: [Egg dance]

abstracts: An outdoor village festival; at center, a stocky peasant trips over and around a cluster of eggs. Musicians, couples drinking and embracing. Dancers in the distance.

text: Prints

extent: Engraving in line border, image including legends: 22.8 x 29.5 cm.


title: [The parable of the prodigal son]

callNumber: *MGZFD  Gal P Par 1

namePart: Galle, Philippe, 1537-1612

namePart: Heemskerk, Martin van, 1498-1574

namePart: Galle, Théodore, 1571-1633

text: Prodigal son (Parable)

text: Biblical dancing

text: P. Galle fe. ; M Hemskerck inuen.

text: Lettered at bottom left: Theodor Galle excud.

text: Legend in Latin at bottom: Pater illum nouis uestimentis induit, intulum, mactat, et simul letati sunt.

text: Title from the online catalog of the British Museum, London, which holds a copy of this print.

type: funding

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

text: Purchase;  Golden Legend.

text: This print is part of a series depicting different scenes from the story of the prodigal son. Philippe [also known as Philip, Philipp or Philips] Galle was a draughtsman, engraver, writer, publisher, and print dealer based in Antwerp. His son Theodor Galle was also an engraver, publisher, and print dealer. The Dutch painter Maarten van Heemskerck [there are many variant spellings of his name] made drawings for some six hundred prints. His subjects, frequently drawn from the Bible, displayed his flair for original compositions.

title: [The parable of the prodigal son]

abstracts: Scene from the Biblical story of the prodigal son. In the foreground, a butcher prepares a carcass, possibly symbolizing the "fatted calf" of the parable's celebratory feast. In the middle ground at right, the prodigal son dances in a circle with his family, rejoicing in his return. They wear contemporary finery rather than biblical robes.

text: Prints


title: Ver

callNumber: *MGZFD Gal P Ver 1

namePart: Straet, Jan van der, 1523-1605

text: Festivals

text: Spring in art

text: Dance

text: Europe

text: 17th century

text: Phillippus Galleus excudebat; Iohanus Stradanus inventor.

text: Caption reads: Dum medio veris labuntur tempora cursu, Et mutata nouas concipit aura vices: Ipsa iterum varias tellus reparata colores Induit, et ducit turba renata choros.

text: lot #61.

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

title: Ver

abstracts: Image within an oval depicts an outdoor village scene in the activities of a Spring festival.  In the center a group of dancers move in a circle, while onlookers watch and musicians play their instruments in the foreground.  In the backgound other scenes unfold: a procession of women carrying plates, a horse-drawn wagon and other village activities.

text: Prints


title: Der Schäffler-Tanz in München

originInfo: 18201829MünchenHermann & Barth

callNumber: *MGZFD Gar 1

text: Schäfflertanz (Dance)

text: Dance

text: Germany

text: 19th century

text: Garland dances

text: Commedia dell'arte

text: Harlequin (Fictitious character) in art

text: Musicians

text: A color reproduction of this print is tipped in on p. 33 of Günther Kapfhammer's Der Münchner Schäfflertanz, 1976.

title: Der Schäffler-Tanz in München

abstracts: An unsigned print of an outdoor festival in Munich. People are watching from the windows of their houses as men in caps, short jackets and aprons perform a garland dance. The crowd includes two harlequins.

text: Prints

extent: Lithograph, colored, image: 21 x 25.2 cm.


title: Theater pass

callNumber: *MGZFD Gar E 1

namePart: Garrick, Eva Maria, 1724-1822

text: Ballet

text: England

text: 18th century

text: Possibly engraved by William Hogarth.

title: For the benefit of Mademoiselle Violette at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, Wednesday February the 11th

type: uniform

abstracts: A ticket with engraved ornamental frame for the 1747 benefit performance of Eva Maria Viegal, Viennese ballerina and future wife of actor and dramatist David Garrick.  For her benefit performance, Mademoiselle Violette danced in Colley Cibber's 1704 comedy The careless husband.

text: Prints


title: [Head of a woman]

callNumber: *MGZFD  Garc E Hea 1

namePart: García Benito, Eduardo, 1891-1962

text: Benito.

text: Title devised by cataloger.

text: Eduardo García Benito, 1891-1981, also known simply as Benito, studied art in his native Spain and at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He worked as a designer of fabrics, furnishings, and decorative objects with couturier Paul Poiret, and contributed illustrations to Parisian fashion journals such as the Gazette du Bon Ton. In 1920 he was appointed head illustrator of the fashion magazines Vogue and Vanity Fair, a post he held for twenty years. His characteristic "big head" style, which emphasized the subject's head and long neck against a simple background, is evident in this print.

title: [Head of a woman]

abstracts: Profile, facing left, of a woman who inspects her red lips in a small hand mirror.

text: Prints

extent: 1 print on silver paper : hand-colored, with embossing ; 24 x 19 cm., on mount 31 x 23 cm.


title: Elève d'une école de danse

callNumber: *MGZFD  Gat G Ele 1

namePart: Gatine, Georges Jacques, 1773-1831

namePart: Lanté, Louis Marie, b. 1789

text: Dancers

text: France

text: 19th century

text: Lanté delt. ; Gatine sculpt.

title: Paris. Elève d'une école de danse

title: Elève d'une école de danse

type: alternative

abstracts: Portrayal of a female dance student. Most of her body is in profile view, but she turns her face to the viewer and twists her shoulders so that her left arm is visible behind her and her right arm curves to frame her face. Her right foot is turned out and her left leg is extended, foot pointed, in front of her. She wears a dark blue top with a white fichu tied over it, and her long white skirt, beginning under her breasts and reaching past her knees, covers a figure that appears more ample than that of a modern-day ballerina.

text: Prints

extent: 1 print : engraving, hand-colored ; 34 x 24 cm., plate mark 30 x 20 cm.


title: Les suites du bal masqué

originInfo: 18301839ParisLith. Coulon

callNumber: *MGZFD Gav S 1

namePart: Gavarni, Paul, 1804-1866

text: Ballrooms

text: France

text: Dance

text: Caricatures and cartoons

text: par Gavarni.

text: Illustration from book.

text: A bawdy scene after a ball; several people on the ground with guards dispersed throughout the crowd.

title: Les suites du bal masqué

text: Prints


title: Wiener SceneNo. 12

callNumber: *MGZFD Gei A 2

namePart: Geiger, Andreas, 1765-1856

namePart: Schoeller, Johann Christian, 1782-1851

text: Masquerades

text: Dance

text: Caricatures and cartoons

text: Below image: Schoeller del, And. Geiger sc.

title: Sie sind sehr gütig, da ich jedoch leicht hitzig werde, so trinke ich niemals Wein

abstracts: A costume ball: at center three men are conversing. At left is a young girl dressed as Fanny Elssler in her Cachucha costume.

text: Prints

extent: Engraving, colored, plate mark: 21.3 x 25.3 cm.


title: Dance commune

callNumber: *MGZFD Gil C Dan 1

namePart: Gillot, Claude, 1673-1722

namePart: Caylus, Anne Claude Philippe, comte de, 1692-1765

text: Dance

text: France

text: 18th century

text: Drums (Musical instruments)

text: Design after a painting by Le Comte de Caylus; Gillot (?), C. sculp.

title: Dance commune

abstracts: The setting is outdoors. Buildings are seen in the background. A group of nine engage in a lively dance. One young man lifts his partner in the air. At left, a drummer keeps time.

text: Prints


title: Waltzer au mouchoir

originInfo: 1800-01-20LondonH. Humphrey, 27 St. James's Street

callNumber: *MGZFD Gil J C 1

namePart: Gillray, James, 1756-1815

namePart: Humphrey, Hannah, fl. 1774-1817

text: Waltz (Dance)

text: Dance

text: Caricatures and cartoons

title: Waltzer au mouchoir

abstracts: A couple dancing in an assembly room; the man, smaller than his immensely fat partner, holds the end of a large handkerchief wrapped around her hips. In the background are two other couples.

text: Prints


title: La walse

originInfo: 1810Londreschez H. Humphrey, St. James Street

callNumber: *MGZFD Gil J C 2

text: Waltz (Dance)

text: Dance

text: Caricatures and cartoons

text: Caption: Le bon genre.

text: Copy of a French print and a version of *MGZFD McC C 1.

title: La walse

abstracts: Caricature of two couples dancing in different styles; both couples are flamboyantly dressed.

text: Prints


title: Waltzer au mouchoir

originInfo: 1800-01-20Londonpublished by H. Humphrey

callNumber: *MGZFD Gil J C 3.

text: Dance

text: Caricatures and cartoons

title: Waltzer au mouchoir

abstracts: A scrawny little man dances with an enormous woman. Two couples are lightly sketched in the background. An uncolored version of *MGZFD Gil J C 3.

text: Prints


title: The German dancing master

originInfo: 1782-04-05London]H. Humphrey, no. 18 New Bond Street

callNumber: *MGZFD Gil J C 4

text: Dance teachers

text: H. I. H. faintly etched in left corner.

title: The German dancing master

abstracts: A dancing master, possibly Jansen, in profile to the left, playing a dancing master's fiddle. He stands on right toe, left leg extended. Facing him is his pupil, a boy, holding his hat in left hand, right arm raised; imitating pose and expression of his master. Behind him stands a younger boy.

text: Prints


title: Gipsy dance

originInfo: 1825Londonpub. by R. Ackermann

callNumber: *MGZFD Gip 1

text: Romanies

title: Gipsy dance

abstracts: The man, at left, is wearing a cap, jacket, wide sash, and knee breeches; he is holding a large tambourine. His partner is wearing a three-tiered dress with a bow at the waist.

text: Prints

extent: Engraving, vignette, colored, 8 x 12.5 cm.


title: Contredanse monarchique

callNumber: *MGZFD  Gra J Con 1

namePart: Forest, Eugène-Hippolyte, b. 1808

text: Ballroom dancing

text: 19th century

text: Dance

text: Caricatures and cartoons

text: J.J. Grand-- ; Eug. For.

text: The lyrics to the musical notation below the image read: "Tas d'poupées voulez- vous danser v'la l'bastringue v'la le bastringue etc. etc."

text: At upper left: 9e dessin de la souscription mensuelle (mois d'avril).

text: Political satire by the French caricaturist and illustrator J.J. Grandville, with Eugène Forest. Some of the faces in the crowd are caricatures of actual individuals.

type: citation/reference

text: Grandville, J.J., Grandville, dessins originaux: 17 novembre 1986-2 mars 1987, Musée des beaux-arts, Nancy, Cabinet des dessins, Nancy, Le Musée, [1986], cat. no. 193A.

title: Contredanse monarchique

abstracts: A decidedly odd-looking assembly of men and women engages in various activities, among them dancing.

text: Prints


title: Les Gracesinconveniences in quadrille dancing

originInfo: 18101899DublinJ. Le Petit

callNumber: *MGZFD  Grac 1

namePart: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878

type: personal

text: Quadrille (Dance)

text: Caricatures and cartoons

text: Ballroom dancing

text: 19th century

text: Caricatures and cartoons

text: This print is a version of George Cruikshank's print of the same title, signed by Cruikshank and published in London by H. Humphrey in 1817. The format of this print is larger and there are stylistic differences in the drawing. Between them, the brothers George and Robert Cruikshank produced several cartoons satirizing the quadrille, a ballroom dance popular in the nineteenth century. In a day with more relaxed copyright laws, these cartoons appear to have been frequently copied and issued by different publishers.

title: Les Graces: inconveniences in quadrille dancing

subTitle: inconveniences in quadrille dancing

abstracts: Satirical representation of the quadrille, a dance for four couples, as danced in a private home. At center, a short man tries valiantly to partner two taller ladies. The other participants pay scant attention to the dance: one man turns his head to chat with the pianist, and the lady and gentleman near the fireplace are more engrossed in each other. The fourth pair has positioned themselves in readiness to dance, but even they seem susceptible to distraction.

text: Prints

extent: 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; 25 x 35 cm.


title: Le maitre a dancer

callNumber: *MGZFD Gue J Mai 1

namePart: Guélard, Jean-Baptiste-Antoine, 1719-ca. 1755

namePart: Huet, Christophe, 1700-1759

type: topic

text: Monkeys

text: Animals in human situations

text: C. Huet del., J. Guelard sculp. et ex C.P.R.

text: Upper right corner, numbered: 11.  Most likely a plate from the book: Singeries, ou, Differentes actions de la vie humaine représentées pardes singes / graveées sur les desseines de C. Huet par J. Guélard.

text: lot #75.

title: Le maitre a dancer

abstracts: Image depicts a brown monkey in the role of "ballet master"; he wears human clothes including a high-collared overcoat, a plumed hat, and knee-length breeches with a ribbon at the knee and a sword.  He leads another smaller, (unclothed) monkey with one hand and holds a pochette in his other hand.

text: Prints


title: Cathalogvs librorū, qui prohibēturtitle page

namePart: Valdés, Fernando de, 1483-1568

title: Cathalogvs librorū, qui prohibētur title page

partNumber: title page

text: Facsimiles

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

collectionTitle: Index librorum prohibitorum


title: Cathalogvs librorū, qui prohibēturpage 44

title: Cathalogvs librorū, qui prohibētur page 44

partNumber: page 44

text: Facsimiles


title: Ozark mountaineer children. Arkansas

namePart: United States. Farm Security Administration

text:
Title and date from inscription on recto.

FSA Collection includes two copies of this photograph.

Image in copy 2 cropped and enlarged.

LC record lacks caption.

title: Ozark mountaineer children. Arkansas

text: Photographs

rights:
Collection items should have the FSA or WPA stamp on the back, signifying that they were photographed under employee of the US Government. The Farm Security Administration photography program lasted from 1935-1944. These photographs were taken as part of a US federal government program and are treated as if the federal government produced them. Therefore, these are public domain.

Collection set with right of publicity restrictions. Images that do not depict visible persons can be cleared of restrictions at an item level.

collectionTitle: Farm Security Administration Photographs


title: Ozark mountaineer children. Arkansas

title: Ozark mountaineer children. Arkansas

text: Photographs


title: Family of Ozark mountaineer. Arkansas

text:
Title and date from inscription on recto.

LC record lacks caption.

title: Family of Ozark mountaineer. Arkansas

text: Photographs


title: Wife of destitute mountaineer, Ozark Mountains, Arkansas

text:
Title and date from Library of Congress.

NYPL copy missing corner at lower left.

text: Photographs


title: Destitute tenant farmer's family, Ozark Mountains, Arkansas

text: Title and date from Library of Congress.

text: Photographs


title: Sharecropper with homemade water wagon, Arkansas

text:
Title and date from Library of Congress.

FSA Collection includes two copies of this photograph.

text: Photographs


title: Wife and children of sharecropper. Arkansas

text:
Title and date from inscription and from Library of Congress records for related photographs (see 006068-M5).

LC record lacks caption.

text: Photographs


text: Photographs


title: Destitute Ozark family, Arkansas

text:
Title and date from Library of Congress.

FSA Collection includes two copies of this photograph.

Image in copy 1 is cropped and enlarged.

title: Destitute Ozark family, Arkansas

text: Photographs


title: Ozark mountaineer, Arkansas

text:
Title and date from inscription on recto.

FSA Collection includes two copies of this photograph.

Image in copy 1 is slightly cropped and enlarged.

LC record lacks caption.

title: Ozark mountaineer, Arkansas

text: Photographs


title: Destitute Ozark resident, Arkansas

title: Destitute Ozark resident, Arkansas

text: Photographs


title: Ozark mountaineers. Arkansas

text:
Title and date from inscription on recto and from Library of Congress records for related photographs.

FSA Collection includes three copies of this photograph.

Image in copies 1 and 2 slightly cropped and enlarged.

LC record lacks caption.

title: Ozark mountaineers. Arkansas

text: Photographs


title: Poverty on the march, a destitute Ozark family, Arkansas

text:
Title and date from inscription on recto and from Library of Congress record for related photograph (see 006071-M2).

NYPL copy trimmed and mounted on cardstock.

LC record lacks caption.

text: Photographs


title: A destitute family, Ozark Mountains area, [Arkansas]

text:
Title and date from Library of Congress.

FSA Collection includes four copies of this photograph.

Image in copy 4 cropped and enlarged.

text: Photographs


title: The steamer Capitol, Mississippi River, Arkansas

text:
Title and date from Library of Congress record for a related photograph of this subject (see 006073-M2).

LC record lacks caption.

text: Photographs


title: Sharecropper's house. Arkansas

title: Sharecropper's house. Arkansas

text: Photographs


title: Stove in home of destitute Ozark family, Arkansas

text:
Title and date from Library of Congress.

FSA Collection includes two copies of this photograph.

Image in copy 2 is cropped and enlarged.

text: Photographs


title: Natchez, Mississippi

title: Natchez, Mississippi

text: Photographs


title: Scene in Natchez, Mississippi

text:
Title and date from Library of Congress record for another related photograph (see 006074-M4).

LC record lacks caption.

title: Scene in Natchez, Mississippi

text: Photographs


title: Natchez, Mississippi

text:
Title and date from Library of Congress records for related photographs in this series.

LC record lacks caption.

title: Natchez, Mississippi

text: Photographs


title: Natchez, Mississippi

title: Natchez, Mississippi

text: Photographs


title: Homeless children, Natchez, Mississippi

text:
Title and date from Library of Congress.

FSA Collection includes three copies of this photograph.

title: Homeless children, Natchez, Mississippi

text: Photographs


title: Scene at Smithland, Kentucky

title: Scene at Smithland, Kentucky

text: Photographs


title: Scene in Smithland, Kentucky, man, woman, and child

text: Photographs


text:
Title and date from Library of Congress.

FSA Collection includes four copies of this photograph.

text: Photographs


text: Photographs


title: Scene in Smithland, Kentucky

text:
Title and date from Library of Congress.

FSA Collection includes five copies of this photograph.

title: Scene in Smithland, Kentucky

text: Photographs


title: Post office, Smithland, Kentucky

title: Post office, Smithland, Kentucky

text: Photographs


title: Scene in Smithland, Kentucky

title: Scene in Smithland, Kentucky

text: Photographs


title: Post office. Smithland, Kentucky

title: Post office. Smithland, Kentucky

text: Photographs


title: Scene in Smithland, Kentucky

title: Scene in Smithland, Kentucky

text: Photographs


title: Resident of Smithland, Kentucky

text:
Title and date from Library of Congress records for related photographs in this series.

FSA Collection includes three copies of this photograph.

LC record lacks caption.

title: Resident of Smithland, Kentucky

text: Photographs


title: Resident of Smithland, Kentucky

text:
Title and date from Library of Congress

FSA Collection includes three copies of this photograph.

title: Resident of Smithland, Kentucky

text: Photographs


title: Smithland, Kentucky

title: Smithland, Kentucky

text: Photographs


title: Barn in Tennessee, built by veteran pension

text:
Title and date from inscription on recto.

FSA Collection includes three copies of this photograph.

LC record lacks caption.

text: Photographs


text:
Title and date from inscription on recto.

FSA Collection includes three copies of this photograph.

Copy 3 trimmed and mounted on cardstock.

LC record lacks caption.

text: Photographs


title: Village jeweler. Kentucky

text:
Title and date from inscription on recto.

LC record lacks caption.

title: Village jeweler. Kentucky

text: Photographs


title: Village [Smithland] in Kentucky

title: Village [Smithland] in Kentucky

text: Photographs


title: Smithland, Kentucky

text:
Title and date from inscription on recto.

FSA Collection includes two copies of this photograph.

Copy 2 trimmed.

LC record lacks caption.

title: Smithland, Kentucky

text: Photographs


title: One of the few remaining Mississippi River boats, the "Queen of Dycusberg"

text:
Title and date from Library of Congress.

NYPL copy mounted on cardstock.

text: Photographs


title: One of the remaining old Mississippi River boats

text: Title and date from Library of Congress.

text: Photographs


title: Barn in Tennessee built by veteran's pension

text: Photographs


title: One of the few remaining old Mississippi River boats, Memphis, Tennessee

text: Photographs


title: West Memphis, Arkansas

title: West Memphis, Arkansas

text: Photographs


title: A deckhand aboard the Queen of Dycusberg, Memphis, Tennessee

text:
Title and date from Library of Congress.

FSA Collection includes two copies of this photograph.

text: Photographs


title: Threshing machine on Case plantation, Pulaski County, Arkansas

text: Photographs


title: Ozark mountaineer children at school. Arkansas

text: Photographs


text:
Title and date from inscription on recto.

FSA Collection includes two copies of this photograph.

Image in copy 2 slightly cropped and enlarged.

LC record lacks caption.

text: Photographs


title: Interior of Ozark school, Arkansas

title: Interior of Ozark school, Arkansas

text: Photographs


title: Blackboard of Ozark mountaineer school. Arkansas

text: Photographs


text:
Title and date from inscription on recto.

FSA Collection includes three copies of this photograph.

Image in copies 2 and 3 cropped and enlarged; copy 3 mounted on cardstock.

LC record lacks caption.

text: Photographs


text:
Title and date from inscription on recto.

FSA Collection includes two copies of this photograph.

Image in copy cropped and enlarged.

LC record lacks caption.

text: Photographs


title: Three Negro children, Natchez, Mississippi

text:
Title and date from Library of Congress.

FSA Collection includes five copies of this photograph.

Copy 5 trimmed and mounted on cardstock.

text: Photographs


title: Negro child in front of badly rundown house, Natchez, Mississippi

text: Photographs


title: Two women walking along street, Natchez, Mississippi

text: Photographs


title: Natchez, Mississippi

title: Natchez, Mississippi

text: Photographs


title: Scene [shoe shiner] in Natchez, Mississippi

text: Photographs


title: Loading cotton, Natchez, Mississippi

text:
Title and date from Library of Congress.

FSA Collection includes two copies of this photograph.

Copy 2 mounted on cardstock.

title: Loading cotton, Natchez, Mississippi

text: Photographs


title: Street scene [with trained bear], New Orleans, Louisiana

text:
Title and date from inscription and from Library of Congress records for related photographs.

LC record lacks caption.

text: Photographs


title: Church turned into a movie house, Woodville, Mississippi

text:
Title and date from Library of Congress.

FSA Collection includes two copies of this photograph.

Image in copy 2 slightly cropped and enlarged.

text: Photographs


title: Barber shop. New Orleans

text:
Title and date supplied by cataloger and from inscription on verso.

LC record lacks caption.

title: Barber shop. New Orleans

supplied: yes

text: Photographs


title: Keeper of a mission flophouse, New Orleans, Louisiana

text: Photographs


title: New Orleans restaurant

title: New Orleans restaurant

text: Photographs


title: Church steps. New Orleans

text:
Title and date from inscription on recto and from Library of Congress records for related photographs.

FSA Collection includes four copies of this photograph.

LC record lacks caption.

title: Church steps. New Orleans

text: Photographs


title: Street scene [church steps] in New Orleans, Louisiana

text:
Title and date from Library of Congress.

FSA Collection includes four copies of this photograph.

text: Photographs


title: Scene in New Orleans, Louisiana. A street tailor

text: Photographs


title: Religious meeting, Nashville, Tennessee

title: Religious meeting, Nashville, Tennessee

text: Photographs


title: Religious meeting, Nashville, Tennessee

title: Religious meeting, Nashville, Tennessee

text: Photographs


title: Negro at religious meeting, Nashville, Tennessee

text: Photographs


title: Religious meeting in Nashville, Tennessee

text:
Title and date from typed caption on verso.

FSA Collection includes two copies of this photograph.

LC record lacks caption.

text: Photographs


title: Outdoor religious meeting in Nashville, Tennessee

text:
Title and date from typed caption on verso.

LC record lacks caption.

text: Photographs


title: Negro at religious meeting in Nashville, Tennessee

text: Photographs


text:
Title and date from Library of Congress.

FSA Collection includes two copies of this photograph.

Copy 2 slightly cropped and enlarged.

text: Photographs


title: Religious meeting, Nashville, Tennessee

text:
Title and date from Inscription on recto.

LC record lacks caption.

title: Religious meeting, Nashville, Tennessee

text: Photographs


title: Religious meeting, Nashville, Tennessee

title: Religious meeting, Nashville, Tennessee

text: Photographs


title: Religious meeting, Nashville, Tennessee

text:
Title and date from Library of Congress.

FSA Collection includes three copies of this photograph.

Image in copy 3 slightly cropped and enlarged.

title: Religious meeting, Nashville, Tennessee

text: Photographs


title: Outdoor religious meeting, Nashville, Tennessee

text:
Title and date from inscription on recto.

LC record lacks caption.

text: Photographs


title: Religious meeting, Nashville, Tennessee

text:
Title and date from Library of Congress.

FSA Collection includes four copies of this photograph.

Image in copies 3 and 4 slightly cropped and enlarged.

title: Religious meeting, Nashville, Tennessee

text: Photographs


title: Smithland, Kentucky

text: Title and date from Library of Congress.

title: Smithland, Kentucky

text: Photographs


title: Girl with hare lip. Tennessee?

text:
Title and date supplied by cataloger and inscription on verso.

LC record lacks caption.

title: Girl with hare lip. Tennessee?

text: Photographs


text: Photographs


text: Photographs


title: Sharecropper's home. Arkansas

text:
Title and date from inscription on recto.

FSA Collection includes two copies of this photograph.

LC record lacks caption.

title: Sharecropper's home. Arkansas

text: Photographs


title: Sharecropper's home. Arkansas

title: Sharecropper's home. Arkansas

text: Photographs


title: Home of tenant farmer, Arkansas

title: Home of tenant farmer, Arkansas

text: Photographs


title: Daughter of Negro sharecropper, Arkansas

text: Photographs


title: House. Arkansas?

text:
Title and date supplied by cataloger.

LC record lacks caption.

title: House. Arkansas?

text: Photographs


title: Sharecroppers. Arkansas

title: Sharecroppers. Arkansas

text: Photographs


title: Church in Louisiana

text:
Title and date from Library of Congress.

FSA Collection includes two copies of this photograph.

title: Church in Louisiana

text: Photographs


title: Ozark mountaineer's farm. The soil a bed of rocks. Arkansas

text:
Title and date from inscriptions on recto and verso.

LC record lacks caption.

text: Photographs


title: Natchez, Mississippi

text:
Title and date from inscription on recto and from LC record for a related photograph.

NYPL copy trimmed and mounted on cardstock.

LC record lacks caption.

title: Natchez, Mississippi

text: Photographs


title: Sunday in Scotts Run, [Monongalia County,] West Virginia

text: Photographs


text:
Title and date from Library of Congress records for related images (see 006115-M3).

NYPL copy has inscription reading "Striking miners, Penna. 1935."

LC record lacks caption.

text: Photographs


title: Liberty, unincorporated, Scotts Run, West Virginia

text: Photographs


title: Pursglove Mine, Scotts Run, West Virginia

text: Photographs


title: Liberty, unincorporated, Scotts Run, [Monongalia County,] West Virginia. Negro family living in Moose Hall

text:
Title and date from Library of Congress records for related photographs in this series (see 006117-M4).

FSA Collection includes two copies of this photograph.

NYPL copies miscaptioned and read "Strawberry pickers. Hammond, Louisiana."

LC record lacks caption.

text: Photographs


title: Scotts Run, [Monongalia County,] West Virginia

text:
Title and date from inscription on recto and from Library of Congress records for related photographs in this series.

LC record lacks caption.

text: Photographs


title: Doped singer, "Love oh, love, oh keerless love," Scotts Run, West Virginia. Relief investigator reported a number of dope cases at Scotts Run [Monongalia County]

text:
Title and date from Library of Congress records for related photographs in this series (see 006118-M5).

LC record lacks caption.

NYPL copy miscaptioned, reads "Maynardsville, Tenn."

text: Photographs


text: Photographs


title: Watching football game, Star City, West Virginia

text:
Title and date from Library of Congress records for related photographs in this series (see for ex. 006119-M2).

FSA Collection includes three copies of this photograph.

LC record lacks caption.

text: Photographs


text:
Title and date from Library of Congress.

FSA Collection includes three copies of this photograph.

text: Photographs


title: Watching a football game, Star City, West Virginia

text: Photographs


title: Morgantown, West Virginia

text:
Title and date from Library of Congress records for related photographs in this series (see for ex. 006121-M2).

LC record lacks caption.

title: Morgantown, West Virginia

text: Photographs


title: A deputy with a gun on his hip during the September 1935 strike in Morgantown, West Virginia

text:
Title and date from Library of Congress.

FSA Collection includes four copies of this photograph.

Image in copy 4 cropped and enlarged.

text: Photographs


title: Company houses at Pursglove Mines, Scotts Run, West Virginia

text: Photographs


text: Photographs


title: Striking miners, Scotts Run, [Monongalia County,] West Virginia

text:
Title and date from Library of Congress records for related photographs in this series.

LC record lacks caption..

text: Photographs


text: Photographs


title: The Shack, a one time church; milk is dispensed here. Relief clients wait for hours, Scotts Run, [Monongalia County,] West Virginia

text:
Title and date from Library of Congress records for related photographs in this series.

LC record lacks caption.

text: Photographs


text:
Title and date from Library of Congress.

FSA Collection includes three copies of this photograph.

Image in copies 2-4 slightly cropped and enlarged.

text: Photographs


title: Maynardsville, mining town, Tennessee

text:
Title and date from inscription on recto.

LC record lacks caption.

title: Maynardsville, mining town, Tennessee

text: Photographs


title: Waiting for relief agent, Scott's Run, [Monongalia County], West Virginia

text: Photographs


title: Maynardsville, Mining town, Tennessee

title: Maynardsville, Mining town, Tennessee

text: Photographs


text: Photographs


text:
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LC record lacks caption.

text: Photographs


title: Receiving relief check. Scott's Run, [Monongalia County], West Virginia

text:
Title and date from inscription on recto and from Library of Congress for related photograph.

FSA Collection includes two copies of this photograph.

Copy two slightly cropped and enlarged.

LC record lacks caption.

text: Photographs


title: Colored inhabitant of Scotts Run, [Monongalia County,] West Virginia, who has just received relief check

text:
Title and date from Library of Congress.

FSA Collection includes two copies of this photograph.

Copy two cropped and enlarged.

text: Photographs


title: Relief check, Scotts Run, [Monongalia County,] West Virginia

text: Photographs


title: Scotts Run, Monongalia County, West Virginia

text:
Title and date from Library of Congress captions for related photographs in this series.

LC record lacks caption.

text: Photographs


title: Waiting for relief check, Scotts Run, [Monongalia County,] West Virginia

text: Title and date from Library of Congress.

text: Photographs


title: Scotts Run, [Monongalia County,] West Virginia, walking into town for relief food

text:
Title and date from Library of Congress.

FSA Collection includes six copies of this photograph.

text: Photographs


text:
Title and date from Library of Congress record for a related photograph (see 006129-M1).

FSA Collection includes four copies of this photograph.

text: Photographs


text:
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LC record lacks caption; original negative killed and punched.

text: Photographs


title: Cattle dealer in western West Virginia.

namePart: Ben Shahn (American, 1898-1969)

namePart: United States. Farm Security Administration (American, active 1930s-1940s)

title: Cattle dealer in western West Virginia.

text: Photographs


title: Farm market. Red House, West Virginia.

title: Farm market. Red House, West Virginia.

text: Photographs


title: Miner's family? West Virginia.

text:
Title and date supplied by cataloger.

LC record lacks caption.

title: Miner's family? West Virginia.

text: Photographs


title: Children of coal miners, Sunbeam Mines, [Morgantown?,] Scotts Run, West Virginia.

text:
Title and date from Library of Congress.

FSA Collection includes two copies of this photographs.

text: Photographs


title: Omar, West Virginia.

title: Omar, West Virginia.

text: Photographs


title: Middlesboro, Kentucky.

text:
Title and date from Library of Congress.

FSA Collection includes eight copies of this photograph.

title: Middlesboro, Kentucky.

text: Photographs


title: Middlesboro, Kentucky. A billboard advertisement for a gasoline service station.

text:
Title and date from Library of Congress.

FSA Collection includes two copies of this photograph.

NYPL copies mounted on cardstock.

text: Photographs


title: Middlesboro, Kentucky. A billboard advertisement for a gasoline service station

text: Photographs


title: Typical folk art, Middlesboro, Kentucky

title: Typical folk art, Middlesboro, Kentucky

text: Photographs


title: Middlesboro, Kentucky, street scene

text:
Title and date from Library of Congress.

FSA Collection includes three copies of this photograph.

Image in copy 3 cropped and enlarged.

title: Middlesboro, Kentucky, street scene

text: Photographs


title: Maynardville, Tennessee

text:
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Original LC negative number: 006139-M4

title: Maynardville, Tennessee

text: Photographs


title: Maynardville, Tennessee

text:
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Original LC negative number: 006139-M5

LC record lacks caption.

title: Maynardville, Tennessee

text: Photographs


title: Street musicians, Maynardville, Tennessee

text:
Title and date from Library of Congress.

NYPL copy torn at head.

Original LC negative number: 006139-M1

text: Photographs


title: Maynardville, Tennessee

text:
Title and date from inscription on recto and from Library of Congress records for related photographs in this series.

Original LC negative number: 006139-M2

LC record lacks caption.

title: Maynardville, Tennessee

text: Photographs


title: Habit of a young woman of Otaheite dancing

callNumber: *MGZFD Hab 1

text: Dance

type: geographic

text: French Polynesia

text: Tahiti

text: Cf. "A dance in Otaheite." *MGZFH  She J  Dan 1, for John Sherwin's original engraving.

abstracts: An anonymous engraving after a drawing made in Tahiti by John Webber.  A woman full length to front, both arms to the left.  She is wearing a bowl-like hat, floor-length dress, pompoms at breasts, two pleated fan-shaped panels at back.  The background consists of a barren plain.

text: Prints


title: Minuet la cour

originInfo: 1817-06-06LondonT. Tegg, 111 Cheapside

callNumber: *MGZFD Hea W C 1

namePart: Heath, William, 1795-1840

text: Minuet (Dance)

text: Dance

text: Caricatures and cartoons

title: Minuet la cour

abstracts: A satire on costume, illustrating the inappropriateness of modern dress to the minuet. Man wearing high stiff collar, tail-coat, Turkish pants; holding right hand of his partner, who wears enormous plumed headpiece, empire dress with standing lace collar. Guests stand or sit.

text: Prints


originInfo: 1822-02-09Londonpublished by Jones & co.

callNumber: *MGZFD Hea W C 2

nameType: corporate

text: Almack's Assembly Rooms (London, England)

text: Dance

text: Caricatures and cartoons

text: Masquerades

text: Lower left: W. Heath del.

title: Almacks. Tom & Bob sporting their figures at a fancy dress ball

abstracts: Ballroom setting, people in masquerade costumes; three couples performing a group dance at center; musicians in a balcony, upper right.

text: Prints


title: Quakers merry making

originInfo: 1807-10-02Londonpublished by R. Ackermann, Repository of Arts, 101 Strand

callNumber: *MGZFD Hei N C 1

namePart: Heideloff, Nicolaus, 1761-1837

namePart: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827

namePart: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834

text: Society of Friends

text: Dance

text: Caricatures and cartoons

text: Lower left: Rowlandson delin. Lower right: Etch'd by N. Heideloff.

title: Quakers merry making

abstracts: A caricature depicting six somber, unattractive adults performing a vigorous social dance. They wear the plain attire associated with Friends. A seventh adult leaping in background center.

text: Prints

extent: Etching, colored, line border: 23 x 34.5 cm.


title: Wien, Wien nur du allein

callNumber: *MGZFD  Her W Wie 1

namePart: Herzig, Willy

text: Ballroom dancing

text: Waltz (Dance)

text: Herzig.

text: This image is probably the work of Willy Herzig, 1894-1978, a prolific German illustrator of sheet music and music album covers. A number of his works represented dance subjects.

title: Wien, Wien nur du allein

abstracts: Printed reproduction; probably a sheet music cover illustration. Depicts a dancing couple in an outdoor setting, with paper lanterns hanging from branches at upper right and a view of a cityscape at left. A singing accordionist and a guitarist appear at right.

text: Prints

text: Sheet music covers

extent: 1 photomechanical? print : col. ; 31 x 24 cm.


title: [Bavarian maypole dance]

originInfo: 18401849Wien?Gedr. bei J. Höfelich

callNumber: *MGZFD Höf J Bav 1

namePart: Höfelich, J.

text: Dance

text: Germany

type: temporal

text: 19th century

text: May poles

text: Maypole and May dances

text: Dance

text: Germany

text: 19th century

text: Folk dancing

text: Lithograph by Wolf.

title: [Bavarian maypole dance]

abstracts: A vast fairground with hundreds of visitors, suggesting the Oktoberfest in Munich: several maypoles, beer concessions, a parade, horsedrawn carriages; a range of mountains in background. Cropped to line border.

text: Prints


title: The Devonshire minuet

originInfo: 1813-05-29Londonpub'd by W'm Holland, no. 11 Cockspur Street

callNumber: *MGZFD Hol W Dev 1

namePart: Holland, William, fl. 1782-1817

text: Minuet (Dance)

text: Dance

text: England

text: 19th century

title: The Devonshire minuet

abstracts: A flattering and gracious depiction of Princess Charlotte and the young Duke of Devonshire dancing a minuet. Princess Charlotte, at left, wears long white gloves and a white dress, the sides of which she holds with both hands. The Duke of Devonshire gazes at her as he dances, holding a two-pointed cocked hat; he is wearing evening attire, with high cravat, waistcoat, and sword at his side. Well-dressed spectators in background, the women seated and the men standing.

text: Prints

extent: Etching, colored, plate mark: 24.7 x 32.7 cm.


title: [Theatrical hornpipe?]

callNumber: *MGZFD  Hor 1

text: Male dancers

text: 18th century

text: Hornpipe (Dance)

text: Title devised by cataloger.

text: Penciled on the verso in an unknown hand: "1843 [or 1823?]. Duplessis Bertaux." This may signify the French printmaker Jean Duplessi-Bertaux; his death date is uncertain, but is believed to be between 1815 and 1819.

title: [Theatrical hornpipe?]

abstracts: Depiction of three men in eighteenth-century costume. The central and largest figure appears to be dancing a hornpipe, with arms folded. The man at left also appears to be dancing, while the black-clad man at right looks on with arms akimbo. This print may be an illustration of a scene from a theatrical performance.

text: Prints

extent: 1 print : engraving, b&w ; 18 x 13 cm., plate mark 14 x 11 cm.


title: Life in Philadelphia

callNumber: *MGZFD  Hun C Bla 1

namePart: Hunt, Charles, fl. 1825-1857

namePart: Summers, W. (William), 1816-1880

text: Ballroom dancing

text: United States

text: 19th century

text: Ballroom dancing

text: African Americans

text: Caricatures and cartoons

text: Dance

text: Caricatures and cartoons

text: W. Summers, del. ; C. Hunt sc.

text: Caption title.

text: Series caption title: Life in Philadelphia.

text: Leaf from a book. On the verso is the poem The British tri-color, with a b&w illustration, below which is printed: Pubd. by W.H. Isaacs, [London].

text: This print may have been originally published as part of E.W. Clay's Life in Philadelphia series, first published in 1828-1830.

title: A black ball

title: Life in Philadelphia

abstracts: Cartoon satirizing middle-class African-Americans in Philadelphia. Set at a ball, it depicts two elegantly dressed women and a man at left, who comment on a second man, at right, who dances alone. Undaunted, he and a third man at far right contribute their own remarks.

text: Prints

form: Etchings Aquatints

extent: 1 print : etching, aquatint, hand-colored ; 20 x 26 cm.


title: A rigmaroll

originInfo: 1825Londonpub. by Pyall & Hunt, 18 Tavistock St., Jan'y

callNumber: *MGZFD Hun G Rig 1

namePart: Hunt, George, fl. 1824-1831

text: Dance

text: England

text: 19th century

text: Dance

text: Caricatures and cartoons

text: Circle dances

text: Lower left: M.E. Lower right: Engraved by G. Hunt.

title: A rigmaroll

abstracts: Seventeen stylishly dressed men and women (thirteen men and four women) perform a lively circle dance around a bespectacled man who is also dancing, an umbrella in his upraised arm.

abstracts: Outdoor setting; canes, umbrellas, and other personal objects scattered about the ground.

text: Prints

extent: Aquatint engraving, colored, image: 14.3 x 21 cm.


title: [L'incomparable Ravel]

callNumber: *MGZFD Inc R 1

text: Ravel, Gabriel, 1810-1882

text: Rope dancing

type: acquisition

text: lot #75.

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

text: The Ravel family was a Parisian troupe who performed acrobatics, tumbling, rope dancing, and Charles Mazurier's pantomime ballets.  They also toured extensively in America from the 1830s to the 1860s.  Gabriel Ravel, likely the male dancer depicted in the print, was the leader of the troupe and a celebrated rope dancer.

type: publications

text: Similar image published in The theatre of marvels by Marian Hannah Winter (New York: Benjamin Blom Inc., 1962), plate 3, and Great ballet prints of the Romantic era by Parmenia Migel (New York: Dover Publications Inc., 1981), plate 95.

title: [L'incomparable Ravel]

abstracts: Image depicts three equilibrists dancing upon two "cordes" each balanced on a single leg: a boy and girl side-by-side, accompanied by a man playing a stringed instrument. The boy wears a white costume with red and gold adornment and red boots. The girl wears a pink, wide-collared dress and a feather plumed hat.  The guitar player, who looks over his shoulder toward the viewer, wears a blue and gold costume and a white hat with an upturned brim.

text: Prints

extent: 1 print : engraving, hand col. ; 17 x 24 cm.


title: Die Willy

originInfo: 1836StuttgartLith. Anst. v. Pobuda, Rees et Cie.

callNumber: *MGZFD  Inj Wil 1

namePart: Pobuda, Rees et Cie

type: statement of responsibility

text: Injser [?] del.

text: The artist's name has not been confirmed.

text: Gift; Lillian Moore.

text: Despite its title, which seems to refer to the Wilis of Jean Coralli's ballet Giselle, the ghostly and vengeful maidens who died before their weddings, this print actually predates Giselle, which was not created until 1841. It may have been inspired by a theatrical production, or intended as a satire of such a production.

title: Die Willy

abstracts: In a scene worthy of modern-day Halloween excesses, a young woman with long loose hair, wearing in a knee-length dress that suggests a theatrical costume rather than everyday apparel, stands on her toes as she raises her left hand to her ear, as though straining to hear a sound or voice. In her right hand is a tambourine. She is surrounded by all manner of eerie and mysterious folk: a batlike figure playing a violin; a dour female drummer; a black cat; the ghostly head of a bearded man rising from the earth; a midget in eighteenth-century dress, who aims his rapier at her skirt; a bespectacled dog on his hind legs, playing the triangle. In the background is a chorus line of skeletons and spectral figures; a full moon illuminates all. Inscriptions in Greek letters are written on the arch above the scene.

text: Prints


title: Mr. F. C. Labbe's ball

callNumber: *MGZFD  Inv 1

type: name

text: Artemis (Greek deity)

text: Apollo (Deity)

title: Mr. F. C. Labbe's ball

abstracts: Invitation with blank lines to be filled in by the host. It is illustrated with a depiction of the Greek deities Artemis (or her Roman equivalent, Diana), armed with bow and arrow, and her brother Apollo with his lyre, both striking the ballet position known as an attitude in a landscape  setting. Their poses and simple tunics evoke the balletic style of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

text: Prints

text: Invitations


title: Comus le dieu des debauches et gens de joyeIl porte en son nom la signiffication de banqueter, rire, danser, boire, et balader

originInfo: 1613ParisChez Mlle Dobe

callNumber: *MGZFD Isa J Com 1

namePart: Isaac, Jaspar, -1654

text: Comus, the god of laughter

text: Iaspar Isac fecit.

text: lot #60.

title: Comus le dieu des debauches et gens de joye: Il porte en son nom la signiffication de banqueter, rire, danser, boire, et balader

abstracts: Poem beneath image: Le masque est bien seant à l'ame deguisée/ et la dance et le bal convient a l'inconstant/ L'un cache son dessein et voile sa pensée/ et l'autre nous fait voir qu'il n'est jamais content./ Comme on voit ce flambeau se consumer tuy même/ et ce dieu enjuré et ces chapeaux gastés./ Tout ainssy fait Comus a ce tuy la qui l'aime,/ car il le perd enfin dedans ses voluptés.

abstracts: Image depicts a large open banquet room abuzz with various festive activities.  In the background, toward the left of the room, people eat at a long table; toward the right, revelers stand in a large group, while musicians play trumpets from a balcony above them.  In the foreground a group of four figures dance in a circle, wearing loose-fitting tunics and wreathes of leaves in their hair.  At the threshold of the banquet room stands a solitary figure; he wears a short tunic and a wreath of leaves in his hair; he leans on a spear and holds a torch in his hand.

text: Prints

extent: 1 print : engraving, b&w ; image 27 x 19 cm., on sheet 39 x 25 cm.


title: Danseur des Isles Sandwich

callNumber: *MGZFD Isl S 1

namePart: Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, Jacques, 1757-1810

text: Dance

text: Hawaii

text: History

text: Dance, Black

text: Upper left: Tom. 4; upper right: Pag. 76; lower right: 16.  Likely a plate from a book.

text: Mer de sud, by Grassett San Savier (i.e. Grassett de Saint-Sauveur) is cited as the source of this print at http://www.hawaiiantrading.com .

text: Gift; Mme. Gilberte Cournand; 1998.

title: Danseur des Isles Sandwich

abstracts: Image depicts a dark-skinned, muscular male figure, full length, in the act of dancing on one leg.  He is naked except for a yellow cord and pink, fringed leg cuffs.  He holds a circular shield made of plant materials or feathers, colored pink and orange.  Palm trees and a hut-like structure stand in the background.

text: Prints

extent: 1 print : engraving, hand col. ; 23 x 15 cm.


title: Le bon genre

originInfo: 1810Dublin?publish'd by McCleary, Nassau Str.

callNumber: *MGZFD McC C 1

text: Waltz (Dance)

text: Dance

text: Caricatures and cartoons

text: A copy of a French print and a version *MGZFD Gil J C 2.

title: La walse

title: Le bon genre

abstracts: Caricature of two couples dancing in different styles; both couples flamboyantly dressed.

text: Prints


title: Boliero

originInfo: 18001809Dublinpub. by McCleary, Nassau St.

callNumber: *MGZFD McC C 2

text: Bolero (Dance)

text: Dance

text: Caricatures and cartoons

title: Boliero

abstracts: Social dance satire in which five women and three men are depicted. The women wear feathered or floral headdresses, and high-waisted dresses trimmed with lace and ruffles. Two men wear high neckcloths which cover their ears, and coats with narrow tails. The third man is in military attire. The couple at center perform a vigorous Spanish dance. The woman holds castanets. Her partner dances with his index fingers touching his thumbs.

text: Prints

extent: Engraving, colored, line border: 20 x 30.4 cm.


title: An early lesson of dancing

originInfo: 1818Dublinpub. by McCleary, 39, Nassau St.

callNumber: *MGZFD McC C 3

text: Dance

text: Caricatures and cartoons

text: Dance teachers

text: Dogs

title: An early lesson of dancing

abstracts: A satire on ballet instruction. The dancing master, at background right, poised on the tips of his pumps, plays the fiddle. His pupil, an obese man with a large head and short legs, points his left toe. He wears a top hat and garters. A dog balances on its hind legs. No background, except a board floor.

text: Prints

extent: Engraving, colored, vignette in line border, plate mark: 29.5 x 22.5 cm.


title: Les Graces -- Inconveniences in quadrille dancing

originInfo: 1817Dublinpub. by McCleary, Nassau Street

callNumber: *MGZFD McC C 4

text: Quadrilles

text: Dance

text: Caricatures and cartoons

type: version identification

text: A less unflattering version of George Cruikshank's etching of the same name, published in London in April of 1817, *MGZFD  Cru G  Gra 1.

abstracts: An informal gathering in a drawing room. A lady at the piano, at right. One of the dancers speaks to her over his shoulder. In the foreground a short man strains to hold up the hands of two tall ladies. Six spectators in background. Two paintings on the wall: one of ballet dancers, the other of peasants dancing.

text: Prints

extent: Etching, colored, line border: 20.7 x 31 cm.


title: Dos à dos -- accidents in quadrille dancing

originInfo: 18101819Dublinpub. by McCleary, Nassau St.

callNumber: *MGZFD McC C 5

text: Dance

text: Caricatures and cartoons

text: Six dancers in a circle watch with amusement as two dancers in the center back into each other. Two violinists stand in a doorway.

text: Prints

extent: Engraving, colored, image: 21 x 31.5 cm.


title: Bal masque

originInfo: 18001899ParisLith. de Jobard Freres, editeurs

callNumber: *MGZFD Mad J 1

namePart: Madou, Jean-Baptiste, 1796-1877

text: Masquerades

text: Ballroom dancing

title: Bal masque

abstracts: Masquerade ball, some of the people in costume.

text: Prints


title: Christy's Minstrels

originInfo: 18601869LondonStannard & Dixon imp.

callNumber: *MGZFD Mag H Chr 1

text: Christy Minstrels

text: Dance, Black

text: United States

text: Lower left: H. C. Maguire, del. et lith.

title: Skedaddle: the celebrated walk round sung & danced by the Christy Minstrels

abstracts: Foreground: three members of Christy's Minstrels dancing in a park, three seated musicians playing a harp, trumpet and fiddle; background: a crowd milling around; a palace.

text: Prints

extent: Lithograph, vignette, 25.3 x 32.2 cm., including text.


title: Le maitre de danse Brabancon faisant repeter au petit Condé le pas d'allemande

callNumber: *MGZFD Mai 1

text: Condé, Louis Joseph de Bourbon, prince de, 1736-1818

text: Dance

text: France

text: 18th century

text: France

text: History

text: Revolution, 1789-1799

text: Dance

text: Caricatures and cartoons

text: A political satire of the counter-revolutionary activities of the Prince de Condé. He and his Austrian allies were defeated June 26, 1794 at Fleurus by the Revolutionary forces.

abstracts: A giant-size dancing master carries a violin and a bow. With one hand, he manipulates the strings of a puppet-size Condé whose leg and arm are jerked into motion.

text: Prints


title: Maîtres de l'affiche

originInfo: 18951900ParisImprimerie Chaix

callNumber: *MGZFD  Mait 1-3

namePart: Chéret, Jules, 1836-1932

namePart: Imprimerie Chaix

type: corporate

text: Guilbert, Yvette, 1865-1944

text: Opéra de Paris

text: Entertainers

text: France

text: 19th century

text: Gift; Lincoln Kirstein.

text: Les maîtres de l'affiche was a monthly subscription series issued by Imprimerie Chaix from Dec. 1895 to Nov. 1900. The series comprised a total of 256 reductions of posters in authentic colors, issued in separate numbered sheets referred to as plates. Jules Chéret, the artistic director of Imprimerie Chaix, contributed most of the examples, but other major artists, among them Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Théophile Steinlen, Alphonse Mucha, and Maxfield Parrish, are also represented.

title: Selected plates from Les maîtres de l'affiche

abstracts: Reductions of contemporary posters by important poster artists.

text: Prints

text: Performing arts posters

extent: 3 prints : lithograph, col. ; 40 x 29 cm.


title: Manières françaisesno. 6

originInfo: 18301839Paris]lith. de Langlumé

callNumber: *MGZFD Man 1

namePart: Philipon, Charles, 1800-1862

text: Ballroom dancing

text: 19th century

text: Signed on stone, lower right: Ch. Philipon.

title: Manières françaises, en place!

title: Manières françaises, en place!

partNumber: no. 6

abstracts: Three couples are about to commence dancing. Both the men and the women have the high hair styles of the period.

text: Prints


title: Wallachia

callNumber: *MGZFD  Man L Wal 1

namePart: Larue, André-Léon

text: Clothing and dress

text: Romania

text: Wallachia

text: L. Mansion.

type: biographical/historical

text: Wallachia is a historical and geographical region, now part of Romania.

text: Probably a plate from Fancy ball dress, published in London by W. Spooner, 1832. The artist was Léon Mansion (the pseudonym of André Léon Larue, 1785-ca. 1834), a French printmaker and painter. The prints depicted national costumes, mainly from European countries.

title: Wallachia

abstracts: Full-length figure of a woman in ethnic costume. She steps out on her left foot, holding out her apron with both hands. Behind her at left is a less detailed group of women, apparently performing a circle dance; three more women stand at background right. In the distance is a gently sloping mountain peak.

text: Prints

extent: 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored ; 24 x 20 cm.


title: Sweeping the snows of Petrouchka

originInfo: 1936N.Y.C. [New York]

callNumber: *MGZFD Mar K Swe 1

namePart: Markham, Kyra

namePart: United States, Works Progress Administration, New York (N.Y.)

type: titleInfo

text: Petrouchka (Choreographic work : Fokine)

text: Stage-setting and scenery

text: Stagehands

title: Sweeping the snows of Petrouchka

abstracts: Six stagehands sweeping the stage after a performance. The visible backdrops do not indicate any specific ballet or theater piece.

text: Prints


title: [Peasants dancing]

callNumber: *MGZFD Mar P Pea 1

namePart: Mariette, Pierre-Jean, 1694-1774

namePart: Cotelle, Jean, 1642-1708

text: Dance

text: France

text: 17th century

text: Cotelle inv., Mariette excud. Possibly an engraving by Pierre Jean Mariette after an earlier painting by Jean Cotelle (1642-1708).

type: content

text: Six lines of verse below, beginning, "Dans l'agréable jus qui sort de la bouteille/Noyons tous nos chagrins passez."

title: [Peasants dancing]

abstracts: A rustic celebration taking place in an enclosed courtyard: tipsy revelers at a dinner table at right, a man playing a biniou, the bagpipe of the Breton peasant, at left. Two men and a woman perform a circle dance in a small clearing, their backs to each other, their hands linked together by means of handkerchiefs.

text: Prints


title: Aus dem Ballet Die Maskerade

originInfo: 1820Berlinbei L. W. Wittich

callNumber: *MGZFD Mas 1

namePart: Hoguet, François Michel, 1793-1871

text: Ballet

text: Germany

text: 19th century

text: Lower right: C. J. Thiele.

type: source note

text: A plate from the Berlin series Neue Kostüme auf den beiden königlichen Teatern.

title: [Die Maskerade]

title: Aus dem Ballet Die Maskerade

abstracts: A female folie in attitude, in costume for François Michel Hoguet's 1820 ballet Die Maskerade. She is holding a jester's doll in her raised right hand.

text: Prints

extent: Engraving, colored, plate mark: 23 x 14 cm.


title: A Masque at Paris, where the King and others dressed as satyrs were in great danger

callNumber: *MGZFD Mas 2

text: Dancing injuries

text: Dance

text: France

text: 14th century

text: Masquerades

text: Lower left: J. Harris sculp.

abstracts: The print depicts the Bal des Ardents of 1393. Charles VI, king of France, and several of his retainers danced before the court disguised as savages, chained together and wearing costumes covered with pitch. An accident resulted in the immolation of all save Charles and one other dancer.

text: Prints


title: Danseurs dans un beau décor intérieur

callNumber: *MGZFD Mas 3

text: Balls (Parties)

text: lot #58.

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

title: [Masked ball]

title: Danseurs dans un beau décor intérieur

abstracts: Image depicts a costume ball underway in a high-ceilinged banquet room.  Masked figures and commedia dell'arte characters converse in groups.  A female figure stands in the center of the image, her arms at her side; a masked man approaches her, one leg lifted forward, slightly bent, as though dancing toward her. Servers carry trays of food.  Musicians play from an elevated box.  Figures engaged in sport are visible through the large, open windows.

text: Prints

extent: 1 print : engraving, b&w ; image 12 x 17 cm., affixed to sheet 15 x 21 cm.


title: [Japanese masked dancers]

callNumber: *MGZFD  Mas 4

text: Mask dances

text: Japan

type: language

text: Text in Japanese characters at left.

text: Gift; Lincoln Kirstein.

text: The donor of this print, Lincoln Kirstein, lived in Japan for several periods starting in 1958, and was instrumental in bringing Japanese cultural  groups, among them Gagaku or the musicians and dancers of the imperial household, to perform in the United States. In recognition of his contributions to cultural exchange, the Japanese government awarded him the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Fourth Class, in 1960.

title: [Japanese masked dancers]

abstracts: Six masked dancers are seen in movement on a flat gold field. The four dancers at left, moving in a circle while holding on to one another's sleeves, are identically costumed in green masks and blue coats, with red, green, black and white touches in their headdresses, leggings, and shoes. On the right are two dancers costumed in red with pink and white pantaloons; one wears a brown demonic mask and carries a round object, while the other wears a white mask with a green protruding tongue and appears to play a hand drum. At the top of the field are a cluster of trees, possibly including pine and flowering plum trees.

text: Prints

extent: 1 print : woodblock, color ; 17 x 25 cm., line border 16 x 24 cm.


title: [Maypole dance]

callNumber: *MGZFD May 1

text: May poles

text: Maypole and May dances

text: Musicians

title: [Maypole dance]

abstracts: An inn at right, a maypole, and a platform at left for the musicians. A couple dances in the foreground. The girl wears a blouse, vest, skirt and apron. Her partner wears a tricorne, long frock coat, cravate, vest, and knee breeches. Villagers mill about.

text: Prints

extent: Lithograph, colored, cropped to 19.5 x 24.5 cm.


title: Entrée des Fédérés au Champ de Mars

callNumber: *MGZFD Jan J Ent 1

namePart: Janinet, Jean-François, 1752-1814

text: Dance

text: France

text: History

text: Revolution, 1789-1799

text: Dance

text: France

text: 18th century

text: Bastille Day

text: Inscribed above image: 2E. Evenement du 14 Juillet 1790. Inscribed beneath image: Entrée des Fédérés au Champ de Mars.

text: Engraver identified by G. Mas, Paris.

title: Entrée des Fédérés au Champ de Mars

abstracts: Second event of the vast celebration on the first anniversary of the taking of the Bastille. Huge procession of federal troops seen entering the Champ de Mars, viewed by spectators.

text: Prints


callNumber: *MGZFD Jan J Pas 1

text: Dance

text: France

text: History

text: Revolution, 1789-1799

text: Inscribed above image: 1er. Evenement du 14 Juillet 1790. Inscribed beneath image: Passage des Fédérés au Quai de la Conference.

abstracts: First event of the vast celebration on the first anniversary of the taking of the Bastille. Procession of federal troops marching down residential street, with spectators looking over walls and from windows. Engraver identified by G. Mas, Paris.

text: Prints


title: Serment des Fédérés au Champ de Mars

callNumber: *MGZFD Jan J Ser 1

text: Dance

text: France

text: History

text: Revolution, 1789-1799

text: Inscribed above image: Evenement du 14 Juillet 1790. Inscribed beneath image: Serment des Fédérés au Champ de Mars.

text: Engraver identified by G. Mas, Paris.

title: Serment des Fédérés au Champ de Mars

abstracts: Ceremony on the first anniversary of the taking of the Bastille. Federal troops and spectators, gathered on a vast parade ground, watch as the king swears to uphold the Constitution. Men in uniform hold sabres aloft.

text: Prints


title: Jim Crow

originInfo: 1836Londonpub'd by Orlando Hodgsen [?] 111 Fleet Street

callNumber: *MGZFD Jim 1

text: Rice, Tom, 1808-1860

text: Dance, Black

text: United States

text: Minstrel shows

text: African American dancers

title: Jim Crow

abstracts: Thomas D. Rice dancing in blackface, full length to right, looking right, left hand raised, right hand on hip, left foot raised. Dancer wears hat, short tattered jacket, open-collared shirt, tie, patched knee breeches, leggings. Animals, reptiles and foliage in background. Stage curtains parted.

text: Prints

extent: Engraving, vignette, colored, image: 17 x 22 cm.


title: The Scotch musician

originInfo: 1829-02LondonEngelmann, Graf, Coindet & Co.

callNumber: *MGZFD Jof 1

namePart: Joffroy, fl. 1829

namePart: Engelmann, G. (Godefroy), 1788-1839

text: Dance for children

text: Joffroy delt. Printed by Engelmann & Co.

title: The Scotch musician

abstracts: Depicts a country scene: an itinerant musician is shown playing a pipe while two small children are dancing; in the background a woman drops money into a hat held by a boy.

text: Prints


title: A lively idea

originInfo: 1828Londonpub. by S. W. Fores, 41 Piccadilly

callNumber: *MGZFD Jon T. Liv 1

namePart: Jones, T. H.

namePart: Fores, S. W

text: Dance

text: England

text: 19th century

text: Lower left: Etched by T. Jones.

title: A lively idea

abstracts: An elegantly appointed salon; two couples conversing in background. A couple dances on a carpeted floor, foreground center, one arm around each other's waist, their other arm curved above their heads. The woman wears gloves, a low-cut indoor dress, her hair arranged in finger curls; the man wears a tail coat with high collar, long trousers, gloves.

text: Prints

extent: Etching, colored, line border: 20 x 17 cm.


title: [Footlight]

callNumber: *MGZFD Kin T 1

text: Commedia dell'arte

text: Signed an inscribed by Troy Kinney, lower left.

type: numbering

text: Unnumbered print from an edition of 125 impressions and 14 trial proofs.

title: [Footlight]

abstracts: Commedia dell'arte scene, based on poses by Cecilia d'Andrea and Harry Walters. Columbine figure in supported arabesque, two men kneeling at her feet. Illustration no. 46 in the catalogue raisonné of the etchings and drypoints of Troy Kinney, published by Doubleday and Company in 1929.

text: Prints

form: Etchings Drypoints


title: [Spanish dancer]

callNumber: *MGZFD Kin T 2

text: Spanish dancing

type: exhibitions

text: Pulled for Flamenco Exhibit December 2012. Currently not available for patron use.

title: [Spanish dancer]

abstracts: Female figure, full length to right, looking front, left arm behind back. Portrayed in motion, skirt swirling around legs.

text: Prints


title: Viva Andalucia!

callNumber: *MGZFD Kin T 3

type: personal

text: Valencia, Tortola, 1882-1955

type: citation/reference

text: Although numbered as impression 22 of 100 examples, the 1929 catalogue raisonné of the etchings and drypoints of Troy Kinney, published by Doubleday & Co., states that the edition reached 190 numbered impressions before the plate was canceled.

title: Viva Andalucia!

abstracts: Tortola Valencia in a Spanish dance, full length to left, her right arm forward, her left hand at her waist. The dancer's shawl is touched with yellow, green and red watercolor.

text: Prints

extent: Etching with drypoint, plate mark: 14 x 11.5 cm.


title: [Nymph]

originInfo: 1920Impression 119 of a numbered edition of 120

callNumber: *MGZFD Kin T 4

text: De Carlton, Grace

type: topic

text: Scarf dances

title: [Nymph]

abstracts: Etching by Kinney based on poses by Grace de Carlton, suggesting the scarf dances in vogue in the late 1910s. Lightly clad woman full length to right, momentarily poised on right foot, holding with both hands a scarf that billows above her head.

text: Prints

extent: Etching with drypoint, plate mark: 12.5 x 9 cm.


title: 2. Machab., C. 1.19, Cum in Persidem ducerentur Patres

originInfo: 17401750Augsburg?Klauber Cath

callNumber: *MGZFD  Kla Mac 1

namePart: Klauber Cath. (Augsburg, Germany)

namePart: Klauber, Johann Baptist, 1712-ca. 1787

namePart: Klauber, Joseph Sebastian, ca. 1700-1768

nameType: uniform

text: Bible. Maccabees, 2nd

text: Klauber Cath. sc. et exc. A.V.

text: The German engravers Joseph Sebastian Klauber and his brother Johann Baptist Klauber formed a joint publishing firm after about 1740, and generally signed their works with their firm's name Klauber Cath., the "Cath." signifying their religious faith, which inspired most of their subject matter. Their artistic styles are said to be similar and difficult to differentiate.

abstracts: Scenes from the second book of Maccabees, which describes the history of the Maccabean wars. The numbers on the scenes specify the chapters and verses that they illustrate; information is also provided by the Latin text printed above and below. The large central scene depicts the scourging of Heliodorus, who attempted to seize the Temple's treasury for the king. The elaborate Baroque architecture that provides a backdrop to this scene owes its inspiration more to the stage design of the period than to historical accuracy.

text: Prints


title: Danseur et danseuse de la Guÿane

callNumber: *MGZFD Lab 1

namePart: Labrousse

namePart: Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, Jacques, 1757-1810

text: Indian dance

type: geographic

text: South America

text: Indians of South America

text: Guyana

text: Labrousse del., St. Sauveur direx.

title: Danseur et danseuse de la Guÿane

abstracts: Two people in native costumes dancing, man holding club in left hand; hut, palm trees and mountains in background.

text: Prints


title: Dansseuse de Loango

callNumber: *MGZFD Lab 2

text: Dance

text: Congo (Democratic Republic)

text: Vili (African people)

text: Dance, Black

text: J.G.St. Sauveur direx., Labrousse sculp.

type: acquisition

text: Gift; Mme. Gilberte Cournand.

title: Dansseuse de Loango

abstracts: Image depicts dark-skinned male figure, full-length, engaged in dance.  He wears a feather headdress, a floral patterned skirt with a fur pelt, a stripped scarf at his waist, and colorful wrist and ankle cuffs.

text: Prints

extent: 1 print : engraving, hand col. ; image 16 x 11 cm., on sheet 25 x 19 cm.


title: La mazurka des salons

originInfo: 18401849ParisImp. Jules Rigo et Cie.

callNumber: *MGZFD Lac A 1

namePart: Lacauchie, Alexandre

text: Mazurka (Dance)

text: Lower center: par A. Lacauchie.

text: Eight professional mazurka dancers from the Théâtre des Variétés. The women are wearing ankle-length dresses with overskirts. The men are wearing hats, long belted jackets and boots.

title: La mazurka des salons

text: Prints

extent: Lithograph, colored, line border: 19 x 29.3 cm.


title: Les sobres sotzLe badin

originInfo: 1880ParisMoine et Falconer

callNumber: *MGZFD Lal A Sob 1

namePart: Marie, Adrien-Emmanuel, 1848-1891

namePart: Lallemand, Armand Joseph, 1810-ca. 1871

text: Fools and jesters

text: Caption beneath image, titled Le badin: Fault que soyes, come j'entens, Sot par nature ou par usaĝe!

text: Signed on stone: Adrien Marie, A.J. Lallemand.  Likely an engraving made by Armand-Joseph Lallemand after a drawing by Adrien Marie.

text: Possibly a plate from Le théâtre français avant la Renaissance, 1450-1550: mystères, moralités et farces by Edouard Fournier.

text: lot #99.

title: Les sobres sotz: Le badin

subTitle: Le badin

abstracts: Image depicts a male jester figure, full-length. He wears a tunic trimmed with bells, a hood bearing exaggerated ear coverings, and boots. The jester carries a scepter with a replica of his own head at the end. He stands with his feet together; he leans and looks toward the viewer, gesturing with his index finger.

text: Prints


title: Danse de Pallikares devant Athènes.Dessine d'après nature par Th. Leblanc

originInfo: 1827ParisLith. de Gihaut frères

callNumber: *MGZFD Leb T 1

namePart: Leblanc, Théodore, 1800-1837

text: Folk dancing

text: Greece

text: Daggers & swords

text: Musicians

text: Signed on stone: Th. Leblanc.

title: Danse de Pallikares devant Athènes. Dessine d'après nature par Th. Leblanc

subTitle: Dessine d'après nature par Th. Leblanc

abstracts: Exterior scene; several men dancing in a circle, 3 musicians playing instruments, a fortress, perhaps the Parthenon, on a hill in the background.

text: Prints


title: La leçon de danse

originInfo: 18101820ParisMartinet Libraire

callNumber: *MGZFD  Lec 1

text: Dancers

text: France

type: temporal

text: 19th century

text: Dance

text: Study and teaching

text: France

text: 19th century

text: Dance teachers

text: Déposée à la Bibliotheque Nationale.

text: Purchase; Old Print Shop, 1967.

text: The printing and publishing house of Maison Martinet was founded in 1796 by Aaron Martinet, 1762-1841, who became well-known for publishing satirical prints. His shop on the Rue de Coq in Paris was famous for its window displays of the latest prints, which may have included this print.

title: La leçon de danse

abstracts: Representation of a rather joyless dancing lesson. The woman at center stands in the position termed in ballet "à la seconde," her right arm curved over her head. The man at left, possibly the dancing master, appears to be exhorting or correcting her. In the background at right, an impossibly thin and attenuated woman stands on three-quarter pointe, facing away from the viewer. Also present are a man and three women, who watch the proceedings with varying degrees of interest.

text: Prints

extent: 1 print : etching, engraving, hand-colored ; 26 x 42 cm., plate mark 23 x 30 cm.


title: L'apotheose d'Isis presenté a Madlle. La Princesse de Bournonville

callNumber: *MGZFD Lec S Apo 1

namePart: Le Clerc, Sébastien, 1637-1714

text: Isis (Egyptian deity)

text: Cult

type: statement of responsibility

text: se le Clerc in et f.

text: lot #59.

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

abstracts: Poem beneath image: L'Aymable Isis, au milieu de sa gloire, vient rendre a vos vertus, un hommage éclattant, et vous cedder une victoire, qu'elle ne vous pourroit, disputer un moment, ou pourroit on trouver, belle et sage Princesse. Tant de vivacité tant de discernement. Un vray merite avec tant de Jeunesse, un esprit enjoüé solide et penetrans, ce que dans un âge si tendre, vous possedez desja de belles qualitez, auroit bien lieu de nous surprendre, si tout n'estoit facile, au sang dont vous sortez.

abstracts: Image depicts the interior of a large, pillared temple with Greek or Roman worshipers performing a ritual with a large fire. Some hold goats or sheep or incense bearing containers.  The top portion of the image is comprised of a celestial scene depicting cherubs and robed figures in repose in the clouds, surrounding a godlike king and queen.

text: Prints


callNumber: *MGZFD Lec S Apo 2

text: Isis (Egyptian deity)

text: Cult

text: se le Clerc in et f.

text: Gift; Lincoln Kirstein.

abstracts: Poem beneath image: L'Aymable Isis, au milieu de sa gloire, vient rendre a vos vertus, un hommage éclattant, et vous cedder une victoire, qu'elle ne vous pourroit, disputer un moment, ou pourroit on trouver, belle et sage Princesse. Tant de vivacité tant de discernement. Un vray merite avec tant de Jeunesse, un esprit enjoüé solide et penetrans, ce que dans un âge si tendre, vous possedez desja de belles qualitez, au roit bien lieu de nous surprendre, si tout n'estoit facile, au sang dont vous sortez.  In the center of picture, far in background is a tall, masted sailing ship, viewed through a large window or doorway, as if the room opens onto the ocean.

text: Prints