p8799

TITLE OF WORK: Mdlle Dumilatre, in the new ballet of "The corsair", at Drury Lane Theatre

TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut

DATE: 1844

DIMENSIONS: 15.5 x 12 cm

COMMENTS: A ballet founded upon Lord Byron's poem of the same name. The illustration represents the cabinet of Seide, the opening of act 2, where the Turkish Pasha throws himself upon a couch and Guinare approa

LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London, France

DANCE FORM: classical ballet