Grown Ladies taught to Dance (BM 1948,0214.493)

In a parlour, a dancing master instructs a stout woman who responds stiffly with expression of boredom, behind at left a thin companion sits watching, a dog standing on its hind legs at her feet, in the right foreground a monkey holding a fan sits at the feet of a musician; on the wall behind an image of a couple dancing contrasts with that of a man leading a chained dancing bear; after Daniel Dodd. 1768
Engraving and etching; Hand Coloured