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Carlotta Grisi
- Title
- Carlotta Grisi [graphic].
- Publication
- [1841?-1846]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Still image | Supervised use | *MGZFX Gri 1-4 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Chalon, Alfred Edward, 1780-1860.
- Description
- 3 prints : wood engraving, b&w; 18 x 16 cm. or smaller.
- 1 print : engraving, b&w ;
- Summary
- Collection of prints culled from various sources, depicting the nineteenth-century ballerina Carlotta Grisi. It includes a wood engraving that reverses and crops A.E. Chalon's three-quarter length portrayal of Grisi in costume for Act I of Giselle; two wood engravings from English illustrated periodicals, respectively depicting Grisi in the ballets La Esmeralda and Paquita; and an engraved three-quarter length portrait.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Wood engravings.
- Engravings.
- Note
- Title devised by cataloger.
- Source (note)
- Lillian Moore.
- Biography (note)
- Carlotta Grisi, a leading ballerina of the Romantic period, is probably best remembered today as the first interpreter of the title role of Giselle in Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot's ballet of 1841.
- Contents
- Carlotta Grisi, dans le role de Giselle -- Mdlle. Carlotta Grisi in La Esmeralda [accompanied by a poem]; Illustrated London News, March 30, 1844 -- Mdlle. Carlotta Grisi and M. [James] Silvain, in the new ballet of "Paquita," at Drury-Lane Theatre [accompanied by a poem]; [unidentified periodical, possibly Illustrated London News], June 10, 1846 -- Carlotta Grisi [three-quarter length portrait].
- Call Number
- *MGZFX Gri 1-4
- OCLC
- 825555205
- Title
- Carlotta Grisi [graphic].
- Imprint
- [1841?-1846]
- Biography
- Carlotta Grisi, a leading ballerina of the Romantic period, is probably best remembered today as the first interpreter of the title role of Giselle in Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot's ballet of 1841.
- Local Note
- Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.For another version of the engraved portrait of Grisi, see: *MGZFB Gri C P 3.
- Source
- Mdlle. Carlotta Grisi in La Esmeralda Gift; Lillian Moore.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Chalon, Alfred Edward, 1780-1860. Associated nameMoore, Lillian. Donor
- Research Call Number
- *MGZFX Gri 1-4