"An opera-dancer, Mme Rose Didelot, is poised on her right toe, her head turned in (sharp-featured) profile to the left, holding up a long garland of roses. She wears a pseudo-classical costume, defining her person, the edge of the skirt bordered with roses, a wreath of roses in her hair which is almost short. The scenery is of trees with a landscape background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 27.1 x 21.6 cm, on sheet 28.7 x 22.4 cm., and Mounted on leaf 12 of volume 9 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 12th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
"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., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 26.2 x 36.3 cm, on sheet 29.5 x 39.7 cm., and Mounted on leaf 16 of volume 9 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 5th, 1796, by H. Humphrey, New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Didelot, Charles Louis, 1767-1837 and Didelot, Marie Rose Paul, -1803
"Three opera dancers, holding a garland of roses, are dressed alike in short transparent petticoats partly covered by a shorter apron. The centre dancer holds out her left leg horizontally . Mme Rose [Parisot] is in back view, her sharp features in profile to the right. On each side of the stage is a column on the plinth of which stands a figure: (left) a satyr holding a mask; (right) a woman wearing a clumsy undergarment, in the attitude of the Venus dei Medici. In front of the stage are the musical instruments of the orchestra, including a violin on which is a cap perhaps intended for a bonnet-rouge. ..."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Dance a l'eveque
Description:
Title etched below image, in lower left., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Four lines of verse in two columns below image: 'Tis hard for such new fangled orthodox rules, that our opera-troop should be blam'd ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Theatre: stage -- Opera: dancers -- Musical instruments -- Stage lighting -- Devil -- Dancing -- Newspapers: reference to Morning Herald., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 26.2 x 36.4 cm, on sheet 29.3 x 39.5 cm., and Mounted on leaf 65 of volume 9 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 14th, 1798, by H. Humphrey, St. Jamess [sic] Street
"The Prince and Mrs. Fitzherbert, dancing to the fiddle of George Hanger (right), advance towards an open door (left) through which is seen a large bed, the curtains raised; above the pillows are a crown and triple plume. The feathers are repeated on a chamber-pot under the raised valance of the bed. They are more elaborately dressed than in BMSat 6924; their arms are round each other's waists, the Prince holds with his right hand the left hand of Mrs. Fitzherbert. She wears a small crown, with flowers and ribbons, and triple ostrich plume. George Hanger is dressed as in BMSat 6924; he stands in profile to the left, watching the couple fixedly; a bludgeon hangs from his wrist. An open music-book at his feet shows that he is playing the 'Black Joke'. On the floor (left) are an open book, 'Matrimony', and a torn paper, 'Cirtificate'. Over the door is a picture of Cupid with his bow turning away from Danaë receiving the shower of gold."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Wedding night, or, The fashionable frolic, Fashonable frolic, and Fashionable frolic
Description:
Title etched below image., In lower right corner: Price 2 sh. 6., Temporary local subject terms: Morganatic marriages -- Pictures amplify subject -- Emblem: Ostrich feathers for Prince of Wales -- Music books -- Song: 'The Black Joke' -- Furniture -- Colonel's uniform, Light Infantry -- Violin -- Danae -- Mythological characters -- Lighting: Chandelier -- Sticks: Bludgeon., 1 print : etching & stipple engraving on laid paper ; sheet 25.2 x 34.7 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges., and Mounted on leaf 31 of volume 7 of 12.
Publisher:
Publish'd by J. Phillips, No. 164 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, and Hanger, George, 1751?-1824
Subject (Topic):
Beds, Chamber pots, Crowns, Cupids, Dancers, Military uniforms, British, and Musical instruments
