An engraving of a wedding reception where couples dance together. Prominent amongst them is a man wearing a blue jacket and an ill-fitting wig who dances with a young woman. The dancer's hands are held high in the air. On the right, a fiddler is seated playing and behind him, a couple who are partially obscured by drapes, kiss. A plaque on the wall reads: 'They dance in a round, cutting capers and ramping, A mercy the ground, Did not burst with their stamping, the floor is all wett, with leaps and with jumps, While the water and sweat, splish splash in their pumps.' Inscribed in the plate: 315 / Rowlandson Del 1814 / Pubd Feby 20 1814 by Thos Tegg No 111 Cheapside
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