Influenced by George Cruickshank’s 'Les Graces - Inconveniences in Quadrille Dancing' published April 9th 1817 by H. Humphrey 27 St. James's St., London; see British Museum number 1935,0522.7.69. A room is depicted where in the right background a woman plays the piano; she turns, engaging one of the men who is dancing in conversation. At the centre of the room a couple stand with their backs to the chimney piece, while opposite a man who is short in stature reaches up to take the hand of a lady either side of him as they dance. Another man, who is leaning against the chimney piece observes them. At left a man stands between two women - the woman to his rights turns her head towards him, holding a fan up to her face; he smiles while the woman to his left looks at him admiringly. Fashionable dress is burlesqued, with the women wearing very décolletée, short-waisted dresses while men wear high collars and knee-breeches or loose pantaloons. Hanging on the wall, either side of the chimney piece (above which is a gilt framed mirror with two sconces in which are lit candles) are two framed images - the image hanging at left depicts an elegant man and a female dancer, both of whom wear large feathered headpieces, both en pointe while the image hanging on the wall at right depicts a portly man, who holds a clay pipe in his right hand while dancing with a woman; in the left background of the scene a musician plays a wind instrument.