Exhibition

Short Subjects: Rare Books—Elegance and Etiquette

This display featured an introduction to a variety of dance forms and their social function in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British society.

Drawn from the Center’s collection, Short Subjects: Rare Books was a continuing series of small thematic exhibitions on view from 1979 to 1996.

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Visitors in the galleries, Yale Center for British Art, photo by © Elizabeth Felicella / ESTO