Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg - Dancer, Otahaite by Philip James de Loutherbourg

Watercolour costume study of a dancer in a feathered skirt and yellow headwrap, arm raised, labelled Dancer Otaheite.

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A watercolour and ink drawing shows a dancer in a stylised Polynesian-inspired costume, with a yellow headwrap, a green feathered girdle, a pink wrap and red fringed skirt, and a shell necklace. The figure stands on one leg with one arm raised, and the sheet is annotated 'Dancer Otaha[ite]' and numbered 'No 11'. The work is dated 1785 and attributed to Philip James de Loutherbourg.

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1785

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