A Cotillon. Original pen-and-ink drawing signed E. Hortley. Most probably English. Undated, but ca. 1900-1910

by Dance - Social

$175 · Offered by J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians

Sheet size 290 x 375 mm. Executed in black ink with white highlights with an ornamental border to upper margin and titling within a tambourine motif to lower. Small circular embossed stamp of Goodall's Bristol English paper manufacturer to lower left corner.A humorous drawing set in a dance hall depicting a fashionably-dressed seated woman with five young men lined up on their knees before her, nervously awaiting ther turn to ask the beauty to dance; an older man standing

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