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A country fair: itinerant entertainers act on a stage, women and children look at a peep show, others dance to music provided by a man playing a hurdy-gurdy and boy playing a small trumpet. Engraving by C.N. Cochin the younger, 1740, after F. Boucher.
Boucher, François, 1703-1770.Date: 1740Reference: 32445i- Pictures
St Alban's Street, Pall Mall, London: supporters of Charles James Fox and of William Pitt the younger dance around a may-pole together outside the St Alban's tavern. Engraving by W. Dent, 1784.
Dent, W., active 1793.Date: [March 20 1784]Reference: 585319i- Pictures
A man and two women performing a country dance in Italy, accompanied by a flute-player and watched by an aged couple. Etching by R. Blyth, 1780, after J.H. Mortimer, 1774.
Mortimer, John Hamilton, 1740-1779.Date: Nov. 9th 1780Reference: 3063631i
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An unhappy young child hung on a wall by his nurse, who has gone dancing. Coloured lithograph by H. Daumier, 1843.
Daumier, Honoré, 1808-1879.Date: [1843]Reference: 16537iPart of: La comédie humaine