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Grown Gentlemen taught to Dance   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: John Goldar

After: John Collet
Published by: Thomas Bradford
Title
Grown Gentlemen taught to Dance
Description
English: A satire on pretensions to be fashionable showing an ungainly young man being instructed in dancing by a lithe fashionable teacher, who had curl papers in his hair, one of which is lettered “Newton” and another “Locke on Understanding” and who holds his pupil by the hand, while pointing to his own feet. The pupil has a handkerchief in his pocket and a paper lettered “The Lads a Dunce”. A violinist sits in front to the left, another instrument (described by Stephens as an ear trumpet) leaning against his chair, books, incuding one entitled “The Hornpipe Seriously considered”, lie on the ground at his feet and two kittens play in his violin case. At the back, beneath a paper reading “GROWN Gentlemen taught …”, another pupil wearing spotty stocking, his cane beside him, awaits his turn for a lesson while his feet are held in a trough forcing them to turn out. On the wall behind is a full-length picture of an elegant dancier. 27 June 1767
Etching and engraving
Date 1767
date QS:P571,+1767-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 261 millimetres (image)
Height: 298 millimetres (trimmed?)
Width: 228 millimetres (trimmed to image)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1892,0714.725
Notes

Stephens suggests that the subject may have been inspired by a teacher who was known for teaching "grown Gentlemen" to dance (The Oxford Magazine, vi, 1771, p.177, where the dancing school is called "Le Roque's", and Horace Walpole letter to Lord Nuneham, 6 December 1773).

This is an earlier version of the print described by Stephens as BM Satires 4250. The painting by Collett was presumably passed to Sayer by 1768, see J,5.78 and 1878,0713.1307.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1892-0714-725
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