* The action has been described as a dancing lesson. George Chaffee, in the article cited above, identifies the white-bearded man as the performer Mr. [Peter] Richings and the young woman as the ballerina Augusta Maywood, who first danced in the English version of Le dieu et la bayadère, titled The maid of Cashmere, in 1837.
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