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ARTIST: Jay Potter (drawing)

TITLE OF WORK: The first dance: None but the brave deserve the fair

TYPE OF WORK: Print

DATE: 1899

DIMENSIONS: 31.6 x 22.4 cm

COMMENTS: "Two bashful youths, each longing to dislodge / A maiden - quite the fairest ever seen, / Yet dumb with terror, lest they fail to dodge / The prehistoric lady in between... "

LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.

DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple

KEYWORDS: poem