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Clara Vestris Webster [facsimile signature] as Nancy, in Lady Henrietta; or The statute fair.

Title: Clara Vestris Webster [facsimile signature] as Nancy, in Lady Henrietta; or The statute fair.
Author: Webster, Clara, 1821-1844.
Publication: London, published by Tho's McLean, 26 Haymarket, Jan'y 10th, 1845.

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Description

Lithograph, colored, octagonal; 35.6 x 24.7 cm.

Subject

Note

Drawn on stone from life by T. H. Maguire. Signed on stone: T. H. Maguire.
Webster in Varin's restaging of Mazilier's ballet Lady Henriette; ou La servante de Greenwich, first presented at Drury Lane Theatre, London, April 15, 1844.
Full length to front, standing on left foot with the right opened sideways and resting on the quarter pointe, arms in third arabesque, carried to the left. Her body is tilted, from the waist, to the right.
Cf. *MGZA Dance index. Chaffee, George. The romantic ballet in England, Sept.-Dec., 1943, v. 2, p. 1975. Reproduction.

Call Number

*MGZFF Web C Lad 1

OCLC

NYPY737061476-F

Author

Webster, Clara, 1821-1844.

Title

Clara Vestris Webster [facsimile signature] as Nancy, in Lady Henrietta; or The statute fair.

Imprint

London, published by Tho's McLean, 26 Haymarket, Jan'y 10th, 1845.

Local Note

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Local Subject

Prints (Graphic arts) -- Ballet -- 19th century.

Ballet -- England -- 19th century.

Added Author

Maguire, Thomas Herbert, 1821-1895.

Thomas MacLean (Firm)

Cia Fornaroli Collection.

Research Call Number

*MGZFF Web C Lad 1