Research Catalog

Title

[Adeline Plunkett] [graphic] / [signed on stone] R. Buckner f.

Author

Lane, Richard James, 1800-1872.

Publication

[1854?]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Buckner, Richard, active 1840-1879.
• Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division. fnd

Description

1 print : lithograph, b&w; 34 x 25 cm., on mount 42 x 27 cm.

Summary

Full-length portrait of ballerina Adeline Plunkett, costumed in a Romantic tutu with a bolero over her bodice.

Donor/Sponsor

Dance Committee Purchase Fund.

Subjects

• Lithographs
• Plunkett, Adeline, 1824-1910

Genre/Form

Lithographs.

Note

• Printed on mount at lower left: Buckner.
• Printed on mount at lower right: R.J. Lane, A.R.A.
• Title devised by cataloger.

Indexed In (note)

• Chaffee, George, "The Romantic ballet in London: 1821-1858; some hitherto unremarked aspects," Dance index, vol. II, nos. 9-12, Sept.-Dec. 1943
• Beaumont, Cyril W. and Sitwell, Sacheverell, The Romantic ballet in lithographs of the time, London, Faber and Faber, [1938]

Funding (note)

• Purchased with funds from the Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

Biography (note)

• This lithograph is based on an oil painting by Richard Buckner, titled "Marie Adeline Plunkett," held by the Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery. The dancer wears a pink bolero, with pink decorations on her skirt and in her hair. According to the museums' online catalog, Buckner based her pose on that of the classical statue of Mercury in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
• Various versions of this print exist, though some may be later reproductions; the dancer's costume may be pink, blue, or, as in this example, uncolored. The version held by the Victoria & Albert Museum in London is captioned "Madmoiselle [sic] Plunkett of Her Majesty's Theatre." Like the uncaptioned print held by the National Portrait Gallery in London, it was printed by M & N Hanhart and published by John Mitchell in 1854. A copy formerly in the collection of ballerina Alexandra Danilova is captioned "Adeline Plunkett in La Mañola," an identification also made by the Victoria & Albert and George Chaffee, in the article cited above. The Spanish-style bolero Plunkett wears in this print seems to bear this out, since La Mañola was a balleticized Spanish dance performed to music from Gaetano Donizetti's opera La favorite (1840). Her costume, however, is not the same as in other depictions of her performances of La Mañola.
• Despite her apparently English name, Adeline Plunkett was born in Belgium, made her debut in Trieste, and danced at Her Majesty's Theatre in London before becoming a principal ballerina at the Paris Opéra, where she performed until 1857.

Call Number

*MGZFB Plu A P 4

OCLC

790619413

Author

Lane, Richard James, 1800-1872. Lithographer

Title

[Adeline Plunkett] [graphic] / [signed on stone] R. Buckner f.

Imprint

[1854?]

Indexed In:

Chaffee, George, "The Romantic ballet in London: 1821-1858; some hitherto unremarked aspects," Dance index, vol. II, nos. 9-12, Sept.-Dec. 1943, p. 184, cat. no. 100.

Beaumont, Cyril W. and Sitwell, Sacheverell, The Romantic ballet in lithographs of the time, London, Faber and Faber, [1938], p. 129, cat. no. 83.

Biography

This lithograph is based on an oil painting by Richard Buckner, titled "Marie Adeline Plunkett," held by the Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery. The dancer wears a pink bolero, with pink decorations on her skirt and in her hair. According to the museums' online catalog, Buckner based her pose on that of the classical statue of Mercury in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.

Various versions of this print exist, though some may be later reproductions; the dancer's costume may be pink, blue, or, as in this example, uncolored. The version held by the Victoria & Albert Museum in London is captioned "Madmoiselle [sic] Plunkett of Her Majesty's Theatre." Like the uncaptioned print held by the National Portrait Gallery in London, it was printed by M & N Hanhart and published by John Mitchell in 1854. A copy formerly in the collection of ballerina Alexandra Danilova is captioned "Adeline Plunkett in La Mañola," an identification also made by the Victoria & Albert and George Chaffee, in the article cited above. The Spanish-style bolero Plunkett wears in this print seems to bear this out, since La Mañola was a balleticized Spanish dance performed to music from Gaetano Donizetti's opera La favorite (1840). Her costume, however, is not the same as in other depictions of her performances of La Mañola.

Despite her apparently English name, Adeline Plunkett was born in Belgium, made her debut in Trieste, and danced at Her Majesty's Theatre in London before becoming a principal ballerina at the Paris Opéra, where she performed until 1857.

Local Note

Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

For the print captioned "Adeline Plunkett in La Mañola," see the Alexandra Danilova collection of Romantic ballet prints: *MGZFY Dani 5.

Funding

Purchased with funds from the Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

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Added Author

Buckner, Richard, active 1840-1879. Artist

Committee for the Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Funder

Research Call Number

*MGZFB Plu A P 4