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    • Title:Eighteen of the most favourite new country dances [graphic].
    • Publication:[Edinburgh?] : [publisher not identified], [not before 1791]
    • Physical Description:1 print : etching ; sheet 14.5 x 46 cm, folded to 14.3 x 2 cm, mounted to 24.5 x 2.0 x 2 cm, in case diameter 4 cm x length 27 cm
    • Yale Holdings

      • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
      • Call Number: 792.00.00.106 Shelved in Object Room C:D
      • Status:Not Checked Out
      • Provenance:Marlborough Rare Books; February 2019.
        Sold by Tennants Auctioneers at "The Fan Collection" sale, 7 December 2018.
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    • Medium:wove paper
    • Notes:Title from engraved text at top head of sheet.
      Place of publication suggested by preponderance of Scottish tunes.
      Date of publication based on the arrival of the waltz in England in 1791, included in this selection. See Oxford companion to Music (7th ed.), page 1112.
      Width of sheet is an approximation, trimmed within plate mark. A separate sheet mounted on verso is printed with an emblem incorporating musical instruments. The contemporary fan case is covered in mottled green and orange Dutch gilt paper.
    • Summary:An engraved sheet folded and mounted on wooden sticks secured with brass and bone hardware to form a fan, probably designed as a portable aide-memoire, includes musical scores for eighteen dances as well as directions for the dance steps -- e.g., "The 2nd Lady Lead round the 2d. Gent, the Gent. Do the Same, Lead Down the middle up again Cast off. Pousete" is given for the Duke of Clarence's Fancy. The decorative border is hand-colored in pink. On the verso is a sheet decorated with a small emblem with musical instruments and notations.
    • Format:Visual Material
    • Contents:Duke of Clarence's Fancy -- The Harriot -- Paynes Jigg -- Dibdins Fancy -- Whim of the Moment -- Alexander Dons -- Duncan Gray -- The Haunted Tower -- Waltz -- The Birth Day -- Kiss me Sweetly -- Dreary Dun -- Captain McLean -- Jem of Aberdeen -- Miss Dykes Fancy -- The Highland Club -- Garthland -- The Fife Hunt.
    • Subjects:Country-dances (Music)--Scotland--18th century.
      Country dancing--Scotland--Early works to 1800.
      Musical instruments.
      Musical notation.
    • Genre/Form:Fans (Accessories)
      Etchings--Scotland--Edinburgh--1792.