Title

Cecil Sharp with Winster Morris Dancers, Derbyshire, 1908. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Cecil Sharp with Winster Morris Dancers, Derbyshire, 1908. Photograph taken during one of British musicologist Cecil Sharp's (1859-1924) expeditions to collect English folk music and dances. The Morris is a traditional English folk dance in which participants wear white trousers and shirts, decorated hats, and bells, rosettes, or ribbons.
English Folk Dance and Song Society collection

Date

1908

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B88_458

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

54,0Mb (1,8Mb) / 12,7in x 16,5in / 3802 x 4961 (300dpi)

Keywords

England people male man men hat music arts dance country writing musician guy costume dancing clothes British English traditional dress location century Britain concept typical derbyshire rosette B&W taking notes MONOCHROME collector black & white black and white B W folk music morris dancer 1900s 20th century EFD SS morris dancing musicologist TGN Winster Morris Dancers Cecil Sharp photograph Unknown Cecil James Sharp Winster Morris Men photograph