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Content: Two couples dancing in a shabby room; man in foreground wearing wig and tattered shirt, his partner wearing plumed headdress. Man seated at left striking tambourine; dogs dancing. Man seated at right playing fiddle; barefoot child standing in third position, lifting nightshirt.

Physical Description

Aquatints
Extent: Aquatint, colored, 32.5 x 43.5 cm.

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: NYPY737063533-F
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b12148952
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): cfca2a20-c6f4-012f-f30e-58d385a7bc34

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Still Image

Date Issued

1792-11-05

Cite this item

MLA format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "A French family." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1792. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/cfca2a20-c6f4-012f-f30e-58d385a7bc34

APA format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1792). A French family. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/cfca2a20-c6f4-012f-f30e-58d385a7bc34

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "A French family." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 4, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/cfca2a20-c6f4-012f-f30e-58d385a7bc34

Wikipedia citation

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