Discovery dance - Saukie

Catlin, George (1796-1872)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1861

Height:

44.2 cm  (17 3/8 in.)

Width:

59.5 cm  (23 7/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on card mounted on paperboard

Description

Eleven men dancing (with no visible musical accompaniment). From the artist's own catalog: This is one of the most curious and picturesque dances to be seen, and is given without music—strictly a pantomime. Spies are seen, dancing out and announcing, by signals, the pretended approach of enemies or buffaloes.

RIdIM images

Image URLs

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Bibliographic references

RIdIM/RCMI inventory of music iconography, no. 1: National Gallery of Art, Washington , compiled by Terence Ford, Andrew Green and Emilio Ros-Fábregas (New York : Research Center for Musical Iconography, 1986). OCLC 21021340. RILM 1986-219.

RIdIM record id

1820