The Dancing Academy

George Cruikshank

1839

Etching on copper

10.3 x 9.0 cm vignetted

"The Dancing Academy," for Chapter 9 in "Characters," by Charles Dickens in Sketches by Boz, originally published in Bell's Life in London on 11 October 1835, illustrated by Cruikshank in 1836, and redrafted for the 1839 Chapman and Hall anthology, facing p. 190

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