Woodward (George Moutard) After.

plate 91 of ‘Eccentric Excursions, or Literary & Pictorial Sketches of Countenance, Character & Country in different parts of England & South Wales’, a narrative tour comprising humorous anecdotes from various towns, this scene said to represent a typical night at the Derby Assembly Rooms, depicting a cheery couple smiling into each other’s faces, both poised on their left toes, their right feet raised behind, as his left hand circles her waist, their right hands joined above their heads, as they dance the fashionable Allemande, first introduced into England around 1770 and very popular throughout the following Regency period,

etching by Isaac Cruikshank with original hand-colouring, 250 x 200 mm. (9 7/8 x 7 7/8 in), slight marginal browning, faint offsetting of text and light surface dirt, [BM Satires 9153],