- Title:
- The Long Minuet as Danced at Bath
- Date:
- after 1787
- Materials & Techniques:
- Brown ink with brown wash over graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 9 7/16 x 58 7/16 inches (24 x 148.5 cm), Image: 8 1/16 x 58 7/16 inches (20.4 x 148.5 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in brown ink, upper center: "Bos, Fur, atque Sacerdos."; lower center: "A LONG MINUET AS DANCED AT BATH. | Longa Tysonum Minuit ____ Quid velit & possit rerum concordia discors. __ Horace"; on back, upper left: "John Peace."; illegible inscriptions in graphite, on back, upper left; on back, upper right: "Saw the [...] from [...] at [...] | house at Bath. [...] | more figures at this end and two [...] | the other.)"; on back of mount, center: "Anonymous, 18th c. | John PEACE (?) after H. W. Bunbury | (formerly attributed to H. W. Bunbury) | A Long Minuet as Danced at Bath (underlined) | BY | (H. W. BUNBURY.) | (1750-1811) | COLLECTION - SIR OSBERT SITWELL, BART."
signed in brown ink, verso, upper left: "John Power."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Undetermined
- Accession Number:
- B1975.4.1894
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- bowing | caricature | costume | couples | cravats | dancing | fichus | genre subject | gesture | gloves | gowns | headpieces | humor | men | minuet | nobility | parody | plumes | queue wig | ruffles | satire | tail coats | tricornes | wigs | women
- Associated Places:
- Bath | Bath and Northeast Somerset | England | United Kingdom
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:13057
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unknown artist, (John Peace?), The Long Minuet as Danced at Bath, after 1787
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