Six guineas entrance and a guinea a lesson.

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• ARTIST: Paul Sandby

• PUBLISHER: Published as the Act directs by P. Sandby, St. Georges Row. June 20 1781.

• MEDIUM: Aquatint and etching. Printed in sepia.

  DATE: 1781

• EDITION SIZE: Image size 12 1/2" square. (31.8 cm)

• DESCRIPTION: An English caricature making fun at the Vestris family. The Vestris', Gaetano and son Auguste, were a highly talented family of French dancers. As a Frenchman performing to crowds at the King's Theatre in 1781. Gaetano also taught private classes to many in London, and these lessons are lampooned as seen here, here. Vestris is not the only target, and not the goose. The Frenchmen's technique, and the money earned from the London public, continue to be points of contention. (The American Revolutionary War was on, and the French were on the American colonist side). But it is those eagerly paying for lessons from Gaetano who are once again characterized as hoodwinked geese.<br><br> "Every goose can" is a reference to a supposed Plutarch quote, "A Stranger at Sparta standing long upon one Leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, | I do not believe you can do so much, 'True (said he), but every Goose can.'"<br><br> The artist and engraver of this print was Paul Sandy (1730-1809) Painter and printmaker. A founding member of the Royal Academy and a pioneer in the new printing technique of aquatint, for which this print as an example.

• ADDITIONAL INFO: Ex: collection Winfield Robbins. Stamp in lower left.

• CONDITION: Good condition save for some minor fox marks in the title margin.

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• CATEGORIES: 18th-19th Century Subjects , Caricatures and Satirical , English Satire & Caricatures