Couples dancing at an elegant ball, painted illustration – Historic Reproduction
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This rare historic image captures Couples dancing at an elegant ball, painted illustration in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Couples dancing at an elegant ball, painted illustration
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Elegantly dressed couples turn across a crowded ballroom in this painted illustration, their gowns and tailcoats rendered in the soft, romantic palette favored for Valentine's Day cards of the late nineteenth century. Victorian artists and printers produced many such scenes, which often showed courtship in its most polished setting: the formal ball, where a dance could signal interest and a partner's card was carefully kept. Pictures like this helped shape the idea of Valentine's Day as a holiday of refined sentiment, and the careful attention to costume and the crowd's movement makes it a useful window onto social life of the period.
| Original scan | 515 × 817 px |
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| Reference | Img109 |
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