The Wedding Ball! Or Ma'am'selle M-r c-n-.-ti's Highland Fling into High Life!!
Print
1823 (Published)
1823 (Published)
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In a desolate moorland setting with hills and a croft in the background, to the left a gentleman wearing 1820s top hat, blue coat with yellow waistcoat and grey striped trousers, wielding drumsticks beating money bags; he is attached by a 'matrimonial noose' to a dancer wearing a ballet dress with pink bodice and yellow skirtr garlanded with roses, while on the right a barelegged gentleman wearing a brown 1820s coat and top hat with a green and red kilt, is playing a fife, seated on a trunk marked "To Duff House". Titled below: "The Wedding Ball! Or Ma'am'selle M-r c-n-.-ti's Highland Fling into High Life!!" Etching coloured by hand by George Cruikshank, published T Fairburn, 7 April 1823.
Object details
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| Title | The Wedding Ball! Or Ma'am'selle M-r c-n-.-ti's Highland Fling into High Life!! |
| Materials and techniques | Etching coloured by hand |
| Brief description | "The Wedding Ball! Or Ma'am'selle M-r c-n-.-ti's Highland Fling into High Life!!" Etching coloured by hand by George Cruikshank, published T Fairburn, 7 April 1823. |
| Physical description | In a desolate moorland setting with hills and a croft in the background, to the left a gentleman wearing 1820s top hat, blue coat with yellow waistcoat and grey striped trousers, wielding drumsticks beating money bags; he is attached by a 'matrimonial noose' to a dancer wearing a ballet dress with pink bodice and yellow skirtr garlanded with roses, while on the right a barelegged gentleman wearing a brown 1820s coat and top hat with a green and red kilt, is playing a fife, seated on a trunk marked "To Duff House". Titled below: "The Wedding Ball! Or Ma'am'selle M-r c-n-.-ti's Highland Fling into High Life!!" Etching coloured by hand by George Cruikshank, published T Fairburn, 7 April 1823. |
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| Production type | Mass produced |
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| Credit line | Cyril W. Beaumont Bequest |
| Object history | The print came to the Museum as part of the Cyril Beaumont Bequest. |
| Historical context | The satire refers to the 16 year old dancer Maria Mercandotti, who disappeared from her engagement at the London Opera House in 1823, leaving her patron (some said her father) Lord Fife, who had persuaded her to London from Paris, to marry Ball Hughes, a wealthy society notoriety and gambler known as the Golden Ball. |
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| Accession number | S.307-2000 |
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| Record created | February 19, 2001 |
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