In the top half of the image, three soldiers in full dress uniform assume exaggerated, ballet-like poses, their rifles in hand; each pose is identified above, left to right: 'shoulder arms', 'present arms', and order arms'. In the lower half, two soldiers also pose: 'charge bayonet' and 'at ease'.
Description:
Title etched below image., "J.B. Gearing" unidentified; fictitious name?, Printseller's announcement following imprint: "Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening.", Dedication below title: "Dedicated to the volunteer associations of Great Britain by their obedient humble servant J.B. Gearing.", Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark, partially trimmed: J. Whatman 1794.
Prints of Markova holding and wearing a ballet slipper owned by Marie Taglioni, a nineteenth century ballerina.
Description:
Embossed: "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten" and Stamped verso: "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten. / 101 Central Park West / Cannot be reproduced without permission."
Embossed: "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten" and Stamped verso: "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten. / 146 Central Park West / Cannot be reproduced without permission."
"Didelot dances on the stage between two women, both very lightly clad in quasi-classical costume, and wearing 'cothurnes'. He wears a feathered hat, tunic, and cloak, and looks towards Mme Parisot (right); she strikes an attitude with right leg raised and arms extended, and looks alluringly towards him, her right breast bare. Mme Rose (left), his wife, dances with more restraint, her sharp-featured profile turned austerely towards her husband. All wave their arms above their heads, and their attitudes are in fact graceful (though caricatured). Two plump 'danseuses' (left and right) whirl on one toe in the background. Behind Didelot is an irradiated sun, with features looking down disapprovingly at the dancer."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Operatical finale to the ballet of Alonzo e Caro
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 5th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Didelot, Charles Louis, 1767-1837 and Didelot, Marie Rose Paul, -1803