Madame Dauis [graphic] / P. Lely pinxit.
1673
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Details
Title
Madame Dauis [graphic] / P. Lely pinxit.
Created/published
[London] : R. Tompson exeudit, [1673]
Description
1 print
Material base
paper
Note
This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It may contain incorrect information. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance.
Genre/form
Prints.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.
Item Details
Call number
FAST ACC 272090
Folger-specific note
This is a PRELIMINARY RECORD. It may contain incorrect information. The "FAST ACC" number is a temporary call number. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance. Purchase made possible by The Karen Gundersheimer Acquisitions Endowment. Purchase made possible by The Kathrine Dulin Folger and Family Acquisitions Endowment. From dealer's description: "Moll Davis [Mezzotint] 1673 after Lely Possibly the first professional woman dancer on the English Stage. Mary "Moll" Davis (also Davies or Davys; ca. 1648 – 1708) was a seventeenth-century entertainer and courtesan, dancer singer, and actress. Davis was born around 1648 in Westminster. Not much is known of her until the early 1660s when she became an actress in the 'Duke's Theatre Company' and boarded with the company's manager, Sir William Davenant. Like other performers on the early-English stage, Moll Davis was a versatile performer. From her first appearance in the early 1660s, however, Moll s was particularly praised, by Pepys and others, for her dancing. On 18 February 1662, Pepy’s first reference to a female dancer came when he saw Davenant’s The Law Against Lovers[adaptation of Shakespear’s Measure for Measure], where Davis played Viola. Pepys notes “...a good play and well performed, especially the little girl’s (whom I never saw act before) dancing and singing.” Pepys’ in his diary for the 1660s notes his enjoyment of a number of Davis’ performances where she danced the “jigg”. (see Van Lennep. The London Stage 1660-1800, Part I, p48). Later she became the dancing partner of Josias Priest (c. 1645 – 3 January 1735 in Chelsea, London. (Grove Music)." Ordered from Golden Legend, Inc. D9392 , 2020-06-21, email quote.
Folger accession
272090