Society Couples Dancing

1580–1600

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Six couples of well-dressed figures dancing to music played by a group of four musicians at left. From a series of five plates, after the woodcut by Sebald Beham (Pauli 1245).

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Title: Society Couples Dancing
Artist: Johann Theodor de Bry (Netherlandish, Strasbourg 1561–1623 Bad Schwalbach)
Artist: after Sebald Beham (German, Nuremberg 1500–1550 Frankfurt)
Date: 1580–1600
Medium: Engraving
Dimensions: Sheet: 1 15/16 × 9 1/4 in. (5 × 23.5 cm)
Classifications: Prints, Ornament & Architecture
Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951
Object Number: 51.501.5789
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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