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Additional authors

1. Moore, Lillian. dnr

Description

1. 2 prints : wood engraving?, color; 24 x 35 cm.

Summary

1. Two prints contrasting different moments in the lives of female ballet dancers of the nineteenth century. In the print captioned "Boxing Day ten a.m.," they appear to be gathering for a rehearsal. Still dressed in street clothes, they mill about the stage. Only one woman, at far right, raises her leg in a grand battement as though warming up. The man behind them, pointing to something outside the frame, may be a member of the stage crew. In "Boxing Day ten p.m.," the women have metamorphosed into glamorously costumed dancers onstage, apparently captured in performance.

Subject

1. Ballet dancers -- 19th century. - [Browse in index]
2. Boxing Day. - [Browse in index]

Genre/Form

1. Wood engravings.

Call number

1. *MGZFX Anon Box 1-2

Language

1. English

Note

1. Title devised by cataloger.

Source (note)

1. Lillian Moore.

Biography (note)

1. Boxing Day in Britain and other Commonwealth nations is the day after Christmas, December 26. Its name is often said to derive from the Christmas boxes (tips or gifts) given to servitors and underlings on that day. Though others may have celebrated it as a secular holiday, it was apparently not a day off for nineteenth-century theatrical performers.

Local note

1. Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

Source

1. Gift; Lillian Moore.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Added author

1. Moore, Lillian. Donor