fig. 12 ‘Lady Termagant Flaybum’, title page to Madame Birchini's DANCE: A MODERN TALE: WITH CONSIDERABLE ADDITIONS, and Original Anecdotes collected in the Fashionable Circles (9th? edition, London, c.1800?) printed for ‘George Peacock’
fig. 13 Merchant’s catalogue to ‘Lady Termagant Flaybum’, Madame Birchini's DANCE: A MODERN TALE: WITH CONSIDERABLE ADDITIONS, and Original Anecdotes collected in the Fashionable Circles (9th? edition, London, c.1800?) printed for ‘George Peacock’
The catalogue (fig. 13) printed at the back of Madame Birchini’s dance shows the other sorts of text that circulated alongside it—Tristram Shandy, adultery, flagellation, Ovid, Rochester, Ode to Priapus. Then there is a list of images—including ‘A Sale of English Beauties’. Then there is a note which offers discounts to EIC soldiers and merchants. The Gillray and Rowlandson images visualize the Anglo-Indian trade in obscene print matter described in this catalogue which connected dancers, flagellation, merchant traders, soldiers, slavery, obscenity and disease in a colonial economy of sex, war and dancing.