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The celebrated cancan dance executed by M'lls Morlacchi and Baretta
- Title
- The celebrated cancan dance executed by M'lls Morlacchi and Baretta [graphic].
- Publication
- Boston : Oliver Ditson & Co., 1868.
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- Description
- 1 print : lithograph, b&w; 34 x 27 cm.
- Summary
- Music cover depicting dancers Giuseppina Morlacchi and Leopoldina Baretta (en travesti) facing each other in a dance pose. They stand in a leafy landscape with a large building, its spires suggesting a cathedral, in the distance.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Sheet music covers.
- Note
- John H. Bufford's Lith.
- Indexed In (note)
- Chaffee, George, "American music prints of the Romantic ballet," Dance index, vol. I, no. 12, Dec. 1942
- Illustrated in Barker, Barbara. Ballet or ballyhoo: the American careers of Maria Bonfanti, Rita Sangalli and Giuseppina Morlacchi, New York, Dance Horizons, 1984
- Biography (note)
- Born and trained as a dancer in Italy, the ballerina Giuseppina Morlacchi toured widely in Europe and the United States, sometimes with her own troupe. In 1867 she arrived in Boston, Massachusetts, which became a base for her, and she is said to have introduced the cancan to the city.
- Call Number
- *MGZFB Mor G Can 1
- OCLC
- 759109996
- Title
- The celebrated cancan dance executed by M'lls Morlacchi and Baretta [graphic].
- Imprint
- Boston : Oliver Ditson & Co., 1868.
- Indexed In:
- Chaffee, George, "American music prints of the Romantic ballet," Dance index, vol. I, no. 12, Dec. 1942, p. 208, cat. no. 66.Illustrated in Barker, Barbara. Ballet or ballyhoo: the American careers of Maria Bonfanti, Rita Sangalli and Giuseppina Morlacchi, New York, Dance Horizons, 1984, p. [124].
- Biography
- Born and trained as a dancer in Italy, the ballerina Giuseppina Morlacchi toured widely in Europe and the United States, sometimes with her own troupe. In 1867 she arrived in Boston, Massachusetts, which became a base for her, and she is said to have introduced the cancan to the city.
- Local Note
- Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
- Cancan (Dance)
- Research Call Number
- *MGZFB Mor G Can 1