Dancing Couple, plate four from The Large Wedding-Dancers
- Medium
- Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- Image/plate/sheet: 11.7 × 7.8 cm (4 5/8 × 3 1/8 in.)
- Genre
- Engraving
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
engravingprintprints and drawingpaper (fiber product)
About
The figures in Aldegrever’s lively series of couples and musicians at a wedding show off daggers and swords as gentlemen’s fashion accessories rather than as weapons. As the couples pivot, pace, and embrace, blades peek out at different angles, whether impeding intimacy or visually alluding to increasing amorousness. Moving from left to right in triumphal procession, dancers sway to the tune of trombonists in their wake.
