HER FIRST DANCE

Original 1893 7 1/8 inch x 9 inch Tinted Engraving titled HER FIRST DANCE

Orchardson specialised in depicting failures of communication between people on social occasions. Here, this failure is between an experienced young man and a novice who are asked to open the dancing at a ball.

Painted by William Quiller Orchardson (1832 – 1910). A noted Scottish portraitist and painter of domestic and historical subjects who was knighted in June 1907, at the age of 75.

Published in the Art Journal 1893

Page size 12 1/2 inch x 9 1/4 inch

The print is in very good condition. Reverse side blank.