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Fanny Elssler
- Title
- Fanny Elssler [graphic].
- Publication
- [184-?]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Lossing, B. J.
- Description
- 4 prints : wood engraving, b&w; 25 x 20 cm. or smaller.
- 1 print : engraving, hand-colored ;
- Summary
- Collection of prints culled from various sources, depicting the nineteenth-century ballerina Fanny Elssler. It includes portraits, an action drawing, a satirical cartoon purporting to show Elssler without her wig, and a costume print that includes Elssler's costume for her solo La cracovienne, danced in Joseph Mazilier's ballet La Gipsy (1839).
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Wood engravings.
- Engravings.
- Costume prints.
- Note
- Title devised by cataloger.
- The wood engravings titled M'lle Fanny Elssler and Fanny Ellsler in her dishabille are stamped: Isaac John Greenwood collection.
- Biography (note)
- The Austrian-born Fanny Elssler, a leading ballerina of the Romantic period, excelled in the national dances that lent local color to many ballets in the Romantic repertory. The fire and sensuality she brought to her performances were considered a foil to the otherworldly ethereality of Marie Taglioni, who represented another facet of the Romantics' longing for otherness.
- Contents
- Fanny Elssler [half-length portrait] -- Fanny Elssler [depicted in costume, with castanets]; Illustrated London News, Feb. 24, 1843 -- M'lle Fanny Elssler, 'Tis but a dream! [half-length portrait in profile] / B.J. Lossing sc. -- Fanny Ellsler [sic] in her dishabille: fine feathers make fine birds [cartoon and article] -- Travestissements; No. 7 B, 1842 [the figure numbered 6, at right, depicts the costume for La cracovienne].
- Call Number
- *MGZFX Els 1-5
- OCLC
- 825554071
- Title
- Fanny Elssler [graphic].
- Imprint
- [184-?]
- Biography
- The Austrian-born Fanny Elssler, a leading ballerina of the Romantic period, excelled in the national dances that lent local color to many ballets in the Romantic repertory. The fire and sensuality she brought to her performances were considered a foil to the otherworldly ethereality of Marie Taglioni, who represented another facet of the Romantics' longing for otherness.
- Local Note
- Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Lossing, B. J. Engraver
- Research Call Number
- *MGZFX Els 1-5