"Dos à Dos -- Accidents in Quadrille Dancing", caricature print engraved by George Cruikshank, 1817 ("Other way, Mr. Collins!"):

By an old caricaturist's trick, the women's skirts are shown somewhat shorter than they would have been in reality...

A semi-satirical drawing used as the basis for a colored engraving (print), titled "Academie et Salle de Danse. Les Graces Parisiennes". A mild parody of a French dancing school -- the man on the left is in a contraption to accustom him to turn out his toes at the proper angle, and the next guy is on wedges that enforce the proper angle of bending for the knees. The ladies' skirts are slightly shorter and more diaphanous than they would have been in real life, the dancing master's small "kit" fiddle (pochette in French) is even smaller than it would have been in real life, and the demi-beau in the middle is earnestly scrutinizing his appearance in the mirror when he should be practicing dancing with his partner...
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