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Oh qui goose-toe! [O che gusto]   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Print made by: Francesco Bartolozzi

Print made by: Benedetto Pastorini
After: Nathaniel Dance
Published by: William Humphrey
Title
Oh qui goose-toe! [O che gusto]
Description
English: A companion print to BMSat 5905. Vestris fils, as in BMSat 5905, on the same stage, is dancing in a similar pose, poised on his right toe, his back to the audience, looking over his left shoulder smiling. In his right hand is his hat, held out as before but full of notes or bills, inconspicuously inscribed "gui, £1100", and "£20,000". In his left hand he holds out a netted purse to which is attached a label inscribed "English Guineas". In place of the goose of BMSat 5897 in each lower angle of the square is an ape dressed as a dancer and with his hat held out, cf. BMSat 5903; one (left) matches the pose of Vestris in BMSat 5905, the other (right) his pose in this design. Beneath the design is engraved:



"He Danc'd like a Monkey, his Pockets well cram'd;
Caper'd off with a Grin, 'kiss my A*** & be D------d'." 16 May 1781


Etching and aquatint
Depicted people Portrait of: Auguste Vestris
Date 1781
date QS:P571,+1781-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 384 millimetres
Width: 316 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1849,1003.97
Notes

(Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', V, 1935) The title refers to the prologue for the opening of the summer season at the Haymarket, 27 June 1781, referring to the (belated) end of the opera season: "No more from Voice, or Ear, her profits flow; The Soul of Opera fixes in Goose-toe!"

See the 'Public Advertiser', 27 June 1781.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1849-1003-97
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