Depiction: Monsieur and his family are probably professional dancers, and the picture introduces us to their more intimate hours of practicing. At all events we find nearly the entire generation giving up their energies to the practice of the one accompli.
Signed in plate, lower left: "T. Rowlandson delin.".
Signed in plate, lower right: "S. Alken fecit.".
Source acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Grego I, pp. 58, 170, 272-273
Paston. Social Caricatures, no. 105.
Other title(s)
Companion print to "An Italian Family"
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