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Le Filles d'air. Principales danseuses romantiques dans leurs roles célèbres

Print
ca.1840 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Illustration from a series depicting famous dancers in their celebrated roles. There are five sheets in total, each containing six illustrations, which are joined together to form a continuous strip; the sheets are folded into blue paper boards embossed with gold.


Object details

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Object type
TitleLe Filles d'air. Principales danseuses romantiques dans leurs roles célèbres (series title)
Materials and techniques
Hand-coloured lithograph
Brief description
Print from a series (5 sheets) entitled 'Le Filles de l'air', depicting famous dancers in their celebrated roles. Hand-coloured lithograph, France, ca.1840.
Physical description
Illustration from a series depicting famous dancers in their celebrated roles. There are five sheets in total, each containing six illustrations, which are joined together to form a continuous strip; the sheets are folded into blue paper boards embossed with gold.
Dimensions
  • Size of cover height: 12.4cm
  • Size of cover width: 7.9cm
  • Size of strip height: 10.4cm
  • Size of strip width: 194.2cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1967. London: HMSO, 1968
Marks and inscriptions
(Inscribed in pencil in French on the inside back cover with title and notes)
Object history
Two of the lithographs from which these derive are E.2889 and E.2894-1967. Others are reproduced in The Romantic Ballet in Lithographs of the Time, London, 1938, by C. W. Beaumont and Sacheverell Sitwell.
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1967 . London: HMSO, 1968.
Collection
Accession number
E.504:10-1967

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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