THE COTILLION DANCE.

Date1771

Engraver James Caldwell

After work by John Collet (1725?-1780)

Publisher Robert Sayer (1725-1794)

Publisher John Smith fl. 1750 - 1789

OriginEngland, London

MediumLine engraving and etching on laid paper

DimensionsOverall: 10 7/8 × 14 in (27.62 × 35.56cm)
Other (Platemark): 10 1/8 × 14 1/4 in (25.72 × 36.19cm)

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number1954-484

DescriptionThe lower margin reads: "THE COTILLION DANCE./ Jn.o Collet Pinx./ Ja.s Caldwall Sculp./ London, Printed for Rob.t Sayer, N.o 53 Fleet Street, & Jn.o Smith, N.o 35 Cheapside./ Published as the Act directs, 10 March, 1771."Label TextFour men and four women are shown with hands joined in a circle and dancing to the music of a fiddler and a piper in the balcony of the ballroom.ProvenanceBefore 1954, the Old Print Shop (New York, NY); 1954-present, purchased by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Williamsburg, VA).