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'La Promenade'

Print
1835 (Published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

'La Promenade' Two couples in 1830s fashionable dress dancing in a curtained drawing-room, the floor patterned with circles. The foreground couple dance face to face, the woman facing outwards, with the right hands held above the head and the left legs raised. Titled beneath the image: 'Etched by G Cruikk / La Promenade - / Pubd by Thos McLean 26 Haymarket / Augt 1st 1835'.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Title'La Promenade'
Materials and techniques
Etching
Brief description
'La Promenade' Two couples in 1830s fashionable dress dancing in a curtained drawing-room. Etching by George Cruikshank, published Thomas McLean, 1 August 1835.
Physical description
'La Promenade' Two couples in 1830s fashionable dress dancing in a curtained drawing-room, the floor patterned with circles. The foreground couple dance face to face, the woman facing outwards, with the right hands held above the head and the left legs raised. Titled beneath the image: 'Etched by G Cruikk / La Promenade - / Pubd by Thos McLean 26 Haymarket / Augt 1st 1835'.
Dimensions
  • Page height: 269mm
  • Page irregular right edge width: 234mm
  • Plate height: 124mm
  • Plate width: 164mm
Production typeMass produced
Marks and inscriptions
'81' (Lower right hand corner of the print frame, within the plate; Handwriting; Pencil; Unknown)
Credit line
Cyril W. Beaumont Bequest
Object history
The print came to the Museum as part of the Cyril Beaumont Bequest.
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
S.333-2000

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Record createdJanuary 5, 2001
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