A Plain Minuet.
Print
1797 (Published)
1797 (Published)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
'A Plain Minuet Plate 90' To left a large lady wearing late 18th century dress with plumes in her hair, holding out her skirts in dance pose with, to the right, a thin, upstanding youth in late 18th century dress holding a tricorne hat. Titled above 'A Plain Minuet. Plate 90' and below 'Cruikshanks scp. / London Published by Allen & Co, 15, Paternoster Row, April 1 1797.'
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Title | A Plain Minuet. |
| Materials and techniques | Etching |
| Brief description | 'A Plain Minuet'. Etching by Cruikshank after Woodward, published by Allen & Co, 8 April 1797. |
| Physical description | 'A Plain Minuet Plate 90' To left a large lady wearing late 18th century dress with plumes in her hair, holding out her skirts in dance pose with, to the right, a thin, upstanding youth in late 18th century dress holding a tricorne hat. Titled above 'A Plain Minuet. Plate 90' and below 'Cruikshanks scp. / London Published by Allen & Co, 15, Paternoster Row, April 1 1797.' |
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| Production type | Mass produced |
| Credit line | Cyril W. Beaumont Bequest |
| Object history | The print came to the Museum as part of the Cyril Beaumont Bequest. |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Bibliographic reference | George, Mary Dorothy, Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, Vol. VII 1793-1800, 1942. No 9152, p410. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | S.343-2000 |
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| Record created | January 5, 2001 |
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