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Country dancing

Folk dance with mixed European origins, featuring long lines of couples

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  • A country fair: itinerant entertainers act on a stage, women and children look at a peep show, others dance to music provided by a man playing a hurdy-gurdy and boy playing a small trumpet. Engraving by C.N. Cochin the younger, 1740, after F. Boucher.
  • An unhappy young child hung on a wall by his nurse, who has gone dancing. Coloured lithograph by H. Daumier, 1843.

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    A country fair: itinerant entertainers act on a stage, women and children look at a peep show, others dance to music provided by a man playing a hurdy-gurdy and boy playing a small trumpet. Engraving by C.N. Cochin the younger, 1740, after F. Boucher.

    François Boucher | Date: 1740 | Reference: 32445i
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    St Alban's Street, Pall Mall, London: supporters of Charles James Fox and of William Pitt the younger dance around a may-pole together outside the St Alban's tavern. Engraving by W. Dent, 1784.

    Dent, W., active 1793. | Date: [March 20 1784] | Reference: 585319i
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    A man and two women performing a country dance in Italy, accompanied by a flute-player and watched by an aged couple. Etching by R. Blyth, 1780, after J.H. Mortimer, 1774.

    John Hamilton Mortimer | Date: Nov. 9th 1780 | Reference: 3063631i
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    An unhappy young child hung on a wall by his nurse, who has gone dancing. Coloured lithograph by H. Daumier, 1843.

    Honoré Daumier | Date: [1843] | Reference: 16537i

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