Dance card, including view of Mt. Elias
1891
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1891
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dance card, including view of Mt. Elias is a 1891 watercolor by H. E. Howard, a Hudson River School Movement work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This page mixes tiny sketches and quick watercolor scenes. On the left, there’s a dance card with red figures in a box, a boat with people rowing, and a line of people walking toward a mountain. The right side has a blue-washed water scene with a boat full of figures, and some handwritten notes about a dance. The artist scribbled "Dance" and "Mt. Elias" in the margin, hinting at a mix of social life and nature. The sketches feel loose and fast, like notes from a trip. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more of this artist’s work.
The artwork is a watercolour drawing titled *Dance card, including view of Mt. Elias* by H. E. Howard, created in 1891. It was one of four sketches made aboard the RMS Orotava during a voyage to Egypt that year. The piece is documented in Rodney Searight’s records, with its albums (SD.509–SD.513) sold at Christie’s on February 11, 1969.
Read the full account in the museum source.
British artist H.E. Howard filled pocket sketchbooks with quick watercolours of Suez docks and stagecraft in the 1890s. Look at “Labourers carrying coal up a gangway to a ship at Port Said”, a gritty slice of Port Said…
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