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217 - GEORGE DANCE THE YOUNGER, R.A. (BRITISH 1741-1825)THIS MORN I'VE ORDER'D FOR OUR MEAL, SWEET MAID, A BUTTOCK O' BEEF!!Pencil, pink and grey wash, watermark 1794Inscribed with title (lower centre)16 x 29.5cm (6¼ x 11½in.)Provenance:Sabin Gallery, LondonWilliam DrummondGuy Peppiatt Fine Art, London, 2020The collection of Russell WorbyExhibited:London, Sabin Gallery, The Sublime and Beautiful” Portraits and OtherDrawings by Nathanial Dance R.A. and George Dance R.A., 27 March - 18 April 1973, no 69George Dance was a Professorof Architecture at the Royal Academy (of which he was a FoundationMember) between 1798 and 1805 but also a talented musician,portrait artist and caricaturist. A group of seventy-two portraits of hiscontemporaries was published as, ‘A Collection of Portraits sketched fromthe Life since the year 1793’. A further eighty-four prints, never published,are in the British Museum. His gently humorous caricatures, depictingamusing social situations, such as the present drawing, were produced forhis own amusement and for that of his friends and family.
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GEORGE DANCE THE YOUNGER, R.A. (BRITISH 1741-1825)THIS MORN I'VE ORDER'D FOR OUR MEAL, SWEET MAID, A BUTTOCK O' BEEF!!Pencil, pink and grey wash, watermark 1794Inscribed with title (lower centre)16 x 29.5cm (6¼ x 11½in.)Provenance:Sabin Gallery, LondonWilliam DrummondGuy Peppiatt Fine Art, London, 2020The collection of Russell WorbyExhibited:London, Sabin Gallery, The Sublime and Beautiful” Portraits and OtherDrawings by Nathanial Dance R.A. and George Dance R.A., 27 March - 18 April 1973, no 69George Dance was a Professorof Architecture at the Royal Academy (of which he was a FoundationMember) between 1798 and 1805 but also a talented musician,portrait artist and caricaturist. A group of seventy-two portraits of hiscontemporaries was published as, ‘A Collection of Portraits sketched fromthe Life since the year 1793’. A further eighty-four prints, never published,are in the British Museum. His gently humorous caricatures, depictingamusing social situations, such as the present drawing, were produced forhis own amusement and for that of his friends and family.
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