National Dances, Eugène Giraud, 1854

A peasant boy and girl in traditional german costume dancing by a church on a hill overlooking a village and river or lake; from a series of national dances; design with rounded corners; gold edges to sheet; after giraud; in volume half-bound in green cloth-covered boards and green leather, with gold tooling, lettered on spine 'french familiar subjects / in / lithography. / coloured. ' 1854 tinted lithograph printed with fawn tint stone, with hand-colouring. Date: 1854. Dimensions: Height: 625 mm (volume); Width: 483 mm (volume). Medium: paper. Depicted People: Knoedler & Co. Collection: British Museum. Les Danses Nationales (National Dances) (BM 1854,1011.10)