Two women dance the salterello as another plays the tambourine. Lithograph after Mlle. Lescot, 1818.

A couple dance the salterello as a woman plays the tambourine and a man plays a lute. Engraving by Luigi Barocci after Cesare Masini.

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Two women dance the salterello as another plays the tambourine. Lithograph after Mlle. Lescot, 1818.

A couple dance the salterello as a woman plays the tambourine and a man plays a lute. Engraving by Luigi Barocci after Cesare Masini.