Frolicking feet
(1934-1940)
SPON
Medium
booklet: offset lithograph, 44 pages, paper cover, stapled binding
Measurements
18.3 × 12.1 × 0.3 cm (closed) 18.3 × 24.4 cm (open)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Bequest of Robert Rooney, 2023
© Estate of Robert Rooney
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Sydney, New South Wales
Inscription
printed in yellow ink on front cover u.c.: FROLICKING / FEET
printed in ink on page 1 u.c.: Frolicking Feet / Teaching you / MODERN / BALLROOM / DANCING
printed in ink on page 1 l.c.: Published by / Frolicking Feet Academy of Dancing / “The Block” / 428 GEORGE STREET / SYDNEY
Accession Number
2023.131
Department
Australian Prints & Drawings
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