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The pet of the ballet
- Title
- The pet of the ballet [graphic].
- Author
- Gallon, Robert S. E.
- Publication
- [1843-1844]
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- Description
- 2 prints : lithographs, hand-colored, color; 44 x 30 cm. or smaller, image 23 x 18 cm.
- Summary
- Two prints from a series of eight. No. 2 depicts a ballet dancer with her back to the viewer, dressed in a pink bodice and white skirt with blue trim. No. 7 depicts a dancer in a diaphanous white dress with blue bodice, bearing a wand with a star at its end, standing amid fluffy white clouds.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Lithographs.
- Note
- Print no. 2 contains the following publication information: London, Published Jany. 14th 1843. at Rudolph Ackermann's Eclipse Sporting Gallery, 191 Regent Stt.
- Indexed In (note)
- Chaffee, George, "The Romantic ballet in London: 1821-1858, some hitherto unremarked aspects," Dance index
- Biography (note)
- The Victoria & Albert Museum of London, which holds examples of prints from this series, identifies the lithographer as Robert S.E. Gallon. According to credits on New York Public Library's copy of print no. 6, he also painted the images. The Museum notes that the title of the series may have derived from an "operatic choreographic burlesque Sketch" produced in London in the 1840s, and suggests that the subjects may have been the lesser lights of the ballet rather than principal dancers.
- Call Number
- *MGZFX Gal R Pet 3-4
- OCLC
- 824999818
- Author
- Gallon, Robert S. E.
- Title
- The pet of the ballet [graphic].
- Imprint
- [1843-1844]
- 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. 191, cat. nos. 184, 189. He dates print no. 2 as Jan. 14, 1843 and no. 7 as Feb. 14, 1844.
- Biography
- The Victoria & Albert Museum of London, which holds examples of prints from this series, identifies the lithographer as Robert S.E. Gallon. According to credits on New York Public Library's copy of print no. 6, he also painted the images. The Museum notes that the title of the series may have derived from an "operatic choreographic burlesque Sketch" produced in London in the 1840s, and suggests that the subjects may have been the lesser lights of the ballet rather than principal dancers.
- Local Note
- For print no. 1 and another copy of print no. 2, see: *MGZFB Gal R Pet 1-2.For print no. 6 and another copy of print no. 2, see: *MGZFX Gal R Pet 1-2.Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- *MGZFX Gal R Pet 3-4