Original mezzotint engraving

by Michael Jackson of Dawson performing her famous hornpipe dance. After a painting by an unknown artist held by the Garrick Club in London by Nancy Dawson

$450 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

355 x 252 mm. A very good impression, with thread margins.Slightly soiled and stained. Laid down to contemporary paper mount at corners of verso. Dance Perspectives no. 26, p. 23. NYPL: b12160091 a variant ? later version . Chaloner Smith: British Mezzotinto Portraits Part II, p. 717, no. 2 the second of four versions . On 22 May 1758 Dawson was billed for dancing a hornpipe... During the following season at Covent Garden

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