print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1868,0808.6514
- Title
- Object: "No flower that blows, is like this rose".
- Description
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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. 12 April 1796
Hand-coloured etching
- Production date
- 1796
- Dimensions
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Height: 275 millimetres
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Width: 220 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Description and comment from M.Dorothy George, 'Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the British Museum', VII, 1942)
The dancing of Didelot and his wife at the Opera caused a sensation in the spring of 1796, the first performance being on 20 Feb. 'We never witnessed anything of the kind so admirable as the management by Mme Rose, of her arms and the parts of her body. Grace, ease, and dignity seem contending for pre-eminence.' 'True Briton', 22 Feb. 1796. See BMSat 8891, &c.
The water-colour sketch for this by an amateur (with title) is in the Print Room. (201. c. 6/8.)
Grego, 'Gillray', p. 211. Reprinted, 'G.W.G.', 1830.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0808.6514
