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Child dancers in prints

Title
  1. Child dancers in prints [graphic].
Published by
  1. [18--?]

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Additional authors
  1. Bayard, Émile Antoine, 1837-1891.
  2. Pease, Joseph Ives, 1809-1883.
  3. Warner, William, approximately 1813-1848.
  4. Girardin, Jules, 1832-1888.
Description
  1. 4 prints : engraving, wood engraving, mezzotint, lithograph?, b&w or color; 26 x 26 cm. or smaller.
Summary
  1. Collection culled from various sources, chiefly dating from the nineteenth century. Three prints depict children in the act of dancing. The fourth, titled "Juvenile fancy dress party," includes a little girl dressed as a sylphide, a supernatural creature popularized by Filippo Taglioni's ballet La sylphide (1832) and its imitators, in a white dress, wings, and wreath of flowers. "The parlor sylph" probably also owes its title to the balletic sylphide.
Uniform title
  1. Godey's Lady's Book.
Alternative title
  1. Nous autres.
Subject
  1. Child dancers > 19th century
  2. Sylphide (Choreographic work) > Influence
  3. Wood engravings
  4. Mezzotints
  5. Engravings
Genre/Form
  1. Engravings.
  2. Wood engravings.
  3. Mezzotints.
Contents
  1. The parlor sylph; [penciled date 1843] / mezzotinted for Godey's Lady's Book by W. Warner -- Jacques executait sur la table la danse de l'ours; [penciled notation] Nous autres, by J. Girardin, Paris, Hachette, 1888 / [signed on matrix] Emile Bayard ; Bertrand sc. -- [Dancing children in rustic costume] -- Juvenile fancy dress party [penciled on verso Godey's Lady's Book for 1850] / engraved expressly for Godey's Lady's Book by J. I. Pease.
Call number
  1. *MGZFX Chi 1-4
Note
  1. Title devised by cataloger.
Biography (note)
  1. Godey's Lady's Book was published by Louis Godey in Philadelphia beginning in 1830. Lavishly illustrated, it was famous for its hand-colored fashion plates.
  2. Nous autres, by Jules Girardin with illustrations by Emile Bayard, appeared in several editions. This print comes from the fifth edition, dated 1888.
Title
  1. Child dancers in prints [graphic].
Imprint
  1. [18--?]
Biography
  1. Godey's Lady's Book was published by Louis Godey in Philadelphia beginning in 1830. Lavishly illustrated, it was famous for its hand-colored fashion plates.
  2. Nous autres, by Jules Girardin with illustrations by Emile Bayard, appeared in several editions. This print comes from the fifth edition, dated 1888.
Local note
  1. Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.
  2. Library's copy of The parlor sylph is inscribed on the verso: With admiration and affection, Kay Gregory.
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Added author
  1. Bayard, Émile Antoine, 1837-1891. Artist
  2. Pease, Joseph Ives, 1809-1883. Artist
  3. Warner, William, approximately 1813-1848. Attributed name
  4. Girardin, Jules, 1832-1888. Associated name
Added title
  1. Godey's Lady's Book.
  2. Nous autres.
Research call number
  1. *MGZFX Chi 1-4
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