Costume design for two Morris dancers

Thompson, Alfred (ca. 1833-1895)

Item type:

drawing

Date of creation:

mid to late-19th century

Height:

13.7 cm  (5 3/8 in.)

Width:

9.5 cm  (3 3/4 in.)

Technique / Medium:

pen and black ink with red pencil on medium, smooth, cream wove paper

Description

A pair of dancers in costumes with details associated with a kind of English folk dance (including jingling bells on hats and ankles) and referenced in Shakespeare's Richard II: Act III scene i: Richard Duke of York describes Jack Cade: 1. YORK: And fought so long, till that his thighs with darts 2. Were almost like a sharp-quill'd porpentine; 3. And, in the end being rescued, I have seen 4. Him caper upright like a wild Morisco, 5. Shaking the bloody darts as he his bells.

Iconclass

48C853
stage costume
44B152411
fool's cap
41D2122
cape
41D233
gear for legs and feet
41D6621
anklet
33C912
Morris dance, 'Mauriskentanz'

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Jingle [2873] (multiple small bells on head-gear and ankle bracelets)

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Notes

Inscribed in pen and black ink, ower center: "from/Kenas Rick 11nd." Signed in pen and black ink, lower right: "AT"

RIdIM record id

6350