CAROLINE:1648. Adolphe, Marie-Alexandre. ‘MELLE CAROLINE, DANS MARCO
SPADA’. Full length portrait in costume. Auguste Bry, Paris 1861 [28491] 33 x 24 cm (sheet size) Lithograph with full hand
colour. £120
The print shows the dancer in the ballet Marco
Spada, which was performed at the Paris Opera in 1857. It was a splendid piece of French Second Empire nonsense, featuring bandits, kidnapped heroines, lovers' misunderstandings, a rejected suitor who in a fit of pique agrees to marry someone he doesn't love, and a bandit chief's daughter, freed to marry her lover when it transpires she was adopted. The subject was chosen because it provided two strong female roles for the Paris Opera Ballet's current stars, Carolina Rosati and Amalia Ferraris. |
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CASSEGRAIN, SOPHIE:1649. Adolphe, Marie-Alexandre. ‘MELLE
CASSEGRAIN, DANS MARCO SPADA’. Full length portrait in costume. Auguste Bry, Paris 1861 [28488] 33 x 24 cm (sheet size) Lithograph with full hand
colour. £120
The print shows the dancer in the ballet Marco
Spada, which was performed at the Paris Opera in 1857. It was a splendid piece of French Second Empire nonsense, featuring bandits, kidnapped heroines, lovers' misunderstandings, a rejected suitor who in a fit of pique agrees to marry someone he doesn't love, and a bandit chief's daughter, freed to marry her lover when it transpires she was adopted. The subject was chosen because it provided two strong female roles for the Paris Opera Ballet's current stars, Carolina Rosati and Amalia Ferraris. |
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CERITO:1650. Heath, Ch. ‘CERITO. ONDINE’. Full length portrait of Fanny
Cerito, the ballet dancer. Charles Heath, London 1845 [24360] 22 x 16 cm. Uncoloured steel engraving by W. H. Mete after Edwin D. Smith with decorative border from the ‘Beauties of the Opera & Ballet’, edited by Charles Heath. £75
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CHOLLET:1651. Lacauchie, A. ‘CHOLLET’. From Galerie des Artistes Dramatiques de Paris. Full length image of the ballet dancer in costume, in ‘Le Postillon de
Lonjumeau’. Paris ca. 1840 [24313] Uncoloured lithograph by Alexandre
Lacauchie, 25 x 16 cm. £90
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DONA BRANCA:1654. Sanquirico, A. ‘DONA BRANCA’. Scenery design by Allesandro Sanquirico for the opera by Alfredo
Keil, lithographed by Ricordi after designs by Abini. Milano and Firenze ca. 1830 [27340] 16 x 21 cm. Original full coloured lithograph. Excellent condition. £180
Allesandro Sanquirico (1777–1849), Italian artist and designer. In 1806, after a neoclassical apprenticeship, Sanquirico began to work regularly at Milan's La
Scala. As sole designer from 1817 to 1832, he prepared hundreds of settings for opera and dance and conceived the redecoration of the theatre's interior (1829–30), including its magnificent chandelier. His name is particularly linked with the romantic tradition of opera (Rossini,
Bellini, Donizetti, Pacini) and the dramatic ballets of Taglioni and Viganò. The chief characteristics of his style were asymmetrical architectural design, historical verisimilitude, suggestive lighting, a lively sense of
colour, ‘pavilions’ with richly decorated curtains, drapes, friezes,
mouldings, and spacious cellars or subterranean spaces with suggestively lit vaulted ceilings. Sanquirico also designed gardens, funerals, and Ferdinando I's coronation ceremony . - Alfredo Cristiano Keil (1850 – 1907) was a Portuguese romantic composer and painter.
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EBEL:1656. Bloch, E. ‘WILHELM EBEL’ as Graf Morgano in
Morgano, a fantasy ballet in three acts and a prologue from Paul Taglioni. Berlin, Eduard Bloch ca. 1860 [24381] Full coloured lithograph, 20 x 15 cm. £90
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ELSSLER:1657. Geiger, A. ‘FANNY ELSSLER IN DER CACHUCHA’. Original
hand coloured engraving by Andreas Geiger and published in the Wiener Theaterzeitung ca. 1830 [19772] 21 x 14 cm. £160
Fanny Elssler was a famous ballerina of Austrian origin. |
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ELSSLER:1658. Lacauchie, A. ‘FANNY ESSLER’ (sic!). Full length image of the ballet dancer in costume, dancing the Cachucha. From Galerie des Artistes Dramatiques de Paris. Paris ca. 1840 [24314] Uncoloured lithograph by Alexandre
Lacauchie, 25 x 16 cm. Excellent condition. £120
Austrian ballerina of international renown, especially for her Spanish Cachucha, introduced in 1836 in Le Diable
Boiteaux. Her performances in La Tarentule, La Gypsy, Giselle and Esmeralda were especially noted.
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ELSSLER:1659. Heath, Ch. ‘FANNY ELSSLER.
FLORINDE’. Full length portrait of Elssler, the ballet dancer. Charles Heath, London 1845 [24359] 22 x 16 cm. Uncoloured steel engraving by W. H. Mete after Edwin D. Smith with decorative border from the ‘Beauties of the Opera & Ballet’, edited by Charles Heath. £95
Fanny Elssler was a famous ballerina of Austrian origin. |
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EMAROT, CELESTINE:1660. Adolphe, Marie-Alexandre. ‘MELLE EMAROT, DANS GUILLAUME TELL’. Full length portrait in costume. Auguste Bry, Paris 1861 [28489] 33 x 24 cm (sheet size) Lithograph with full hand
colour. £150
Célestine Emarot was a soloist at the Paris Opera and the mother of the talented Emma
Livry, the dancer who was tragically burned to death when her costume caught fire in 1860. |
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FIOCRE, EUGENIE:1662. Adolphe, Marie-Alexandre. ‘MELLE FIOCRE, DANS L’AMOUR DE PIERRE DE
MEDICIS’. Full length portrait in costume. Auguste Bry, Paris 1861 [28494] 33 x 24 cm (sheet size) Lithograph with full hand
colour. £120
Eugénie Fiocre (b. Paris, 2 July 1845, d. 1908) was a principal dancer at the Paris Opéra 1864–75 where she often danced en
travesti, creating Frantz in Coppélia in 1870, and, renowned for her beauty, was sculpted by
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux and painted by Degas in a scene from Saint-Léon's ballet La Source. |
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GRISI:1668. Heath, Ch. ‘CARLOTTA GRISI. LA GISELLE’. Full length portrait of
Grisi, the ballet dancer. Charles Heath, London 1845 [24358] 22 x 16 cm. Uncoloured steel engraving by H. Robinson after Alfred Edward Chalon with decorative border from the ‘Beauties of the Opera & Ballet’, edited by Charles Heath. £95
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JOSEPH’S LEGEND:1671. Simont, J. ‘DR. RICHARD STRAUSS’S FIRST BALLET PROPER: THE STORY OF JOSEPH AND POTIPHAR’S WIFE SET IN THE 16TH CENTURY, PRESENTED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ENGLAND BY THE RUSSIAN BALLET AT DRURY LANE’. Scene from Strauss’s Ballet
‘Josephslegende’. Drawn by J. Simont for Illustrated London News 1914 [28002] 35 x 48 cm. Double page tinted print. Very good condition. £80
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JOSEPH’S LEGEND:1672. Bransburg, S. ‘RICHARD STRAUSS’S FIRST BALLET PROPER: LA LEGENDE DE JOSEPH’. In a dress of breeches, hose and gown designed by Leon
Bakst: Mme. Marie Kousnetzoff as Potiphar’s Wife, at Drury Lane. This old biblical tale is placed in the 16th century, in the manner, as it were, of Paolo
Veronese. Illustrated London News 1914 [28006] 35 x 22 cm. Uncoloured print after a photograph by Saul
Bransburg. Excellent condition. £90
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LEROUX:1674. Lacauchie, A. ‘PAULINE LEROUX’. From Galerie des Artistes Dramatiques de Paris. Full length image of the French ballet dancer in costume, dancing in Le Diable
Amoureux. Paris ca. 1840 [24316] Uncoloured lithograph by Rigo Freres, 25 x 16 cm. £90
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LEFEVRE, MELLE:1675. Adolphe, Marie-Alexandre. ‘MELLE LEFEVRE, DANS
ORFA’. Mme Lefèvre is probably wearing her costume as a peasant in the first scene, which takes place on a snowy plain near
Reykjavic. Auguste Bry, Paris 1861 [28496] 33 x 24 cm (sheet size)33 x 24 cm (sheet size) Lithograph with full hand
colour. £120
Orfa was a ballet-pantomime set in two acts in Iceland. |
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LEROUX:1676. Aubert. ‘PAULINE LEROUX’. Head to waist portrait. Aubert/Galerie Vero-Dodat Paris ca. 1840 [24305] Uncoloured steel engraving, 18 x 14 cm. Excellent condition. £90
Adele Louise Pauline Leroux (1809-1891), French dancer. Trained at the school of the Paris Opera. Leroux spent most of her career with that company. At the height of the Romantic movement, she was a featured ballerina, creating a number of roles in the period's best-known ballets.
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LIVRY, EMMA:1677. Adolphe, Marie-Alexandre. ‘MELLE EMMA LIVRY, DANS
HERCULANUM’. Full length portrait in costume. Auguste Bry, Paris 1861 [28490] 33 x 24 cm (sheet size) Lithograph with full hand
colour. £120
Emma Livry (born as Jeanne Emma Emarot or Emma Marie
Emarot; 24 September 1842 – 26 July 1863) was one of the last ballerinas of the Romantic ballet era and a protégée of Marie
Taglioni. She died from complications after burn injuries sustained when her costume caught fire during a rehearsal. |
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MARQUET, LOUISE:1679. Adolphe, Marie-Alexandre. ‘MELLE MARQUET, DANS MARCO
SPADA’. Auguste Bry, Paris 1861 [28487] 33 x 24 cm (sheet size) Lithograph with full hand
colour. £120
Marco Spada was performed at the Paris Opera in 1857, a splendid piece of French Second Empire nonsense, featuring bandits, kidnapped heroines, lovers' misunderstandings, a rejected suitor who in a fit of pique agrees to marry someone he doesn't love and a bandit chief's daughter, freed to marry her lover when it transpires she was adopted. The subject was chosen because it provided two strong female roles for the Paris Opera Ballet's current stars, Carolina Rosati and Amalia Ferraris. |
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MULLER:1681. Bloch, E. ‘CHARLES MULLER’ as Carlo in
Satanella, a ballet in three acts from Paul Taglioni. Berlin, Eduard Bloch ca. 1860 [24379] Full coloured lithograph, 20 x 15 cm. £90
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NIJINSKY:1682. Haviland, F. ‘CREATOR OF A REAL REVOLUTION IN DANCING:
NIJINSKY’. The Dancer who prefers character to charm: Pioneer of post - impressionist dancing. One of Frank Haviland’s series of portraits for the Illustrated London News 1913 [28004] 35 x 22 cm. Uncoloured print. Excellent condition. £90
Vaslav
Nijinsky (1890-1950), Russian ballet dancer. From the Imperial Ballet School in
St. Petersburg he went to Diaghilev's famous ballet company in Paris, where he
performed in and choreographed many ballets, including Le Sacre du Printemps
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PAVANE:1683. Toudouze. E. ‘THE PAVANE’. An original etching by Pierre Augustine Massé after Edouard
Toudouze. Art Journal 1886 [26757] 20 x 26 cm. Uncoloured etching. £80
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PAVLOVA:1684. Haviland, F. ‘MLLE. ANNA PAVLOVA, WHOSE DANCING AT THE PALACE
[Theatre] IS A SENSATION OF THE MOMENT’. Fine illustration in costume of the prima ballerina assoluta of the Imperial Opera House, St Petersburg. One of Frank Haviland’s series of portraits for the Illustrated London News 1910 [28005] 35 x 22 cm. Uncoloured print. Excellent condition. £90
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PAVLOVA:1686. Schneider. ‘LA PAVLOVA, RHYTHM AND GRACE: A GREAT RUSSIAN DANCER’. Pavlova dressed as the swan in ‘La
Cygne’ by Saint-Saens at the Palace Theatre. Illustrated London News 1913 [28008] 35 x 22 cm. Brown tinted print after a photograph by Schneider. Excellent condition. £90
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PAVLOVA:1687. Lavery, J. ‘ANNA PAVLOVA, THE GREAT RUSSIAN DANCER’. Head to waist portrait by John
Lavery, specially painted from life for The Illustrated London News, ca. 1911 [26768] 47 x 31 cm. Printed in full
colours. Excellent condition. £100
The celebrated Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova (1882-1931) danced in London with Sergei Diaghilev's company for the first time in the summer of 1910. She caused a sensation with her Dance Bacchanal from Pepita's ballet The Seasons. |
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PEREA-NENA:1688. Brandard, J. ‘THE PEREA NENA POLKA’ by Carl Höchst. Music cover showing a ballet scene with dancers in Spanish costume. M. & N. Hanhart, ca. 1850 [24372] Original full coloured lithograph by John
Brandard, 31 x 24 cm. £125
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PERROT:1690. Lacauchie, A. ‘PERROT’. From Galerie des Artistes Dramatiques de Paris. Full length image of the ballet dancer in costume. Paris ca. 1840 [24312] Uncoloured lithograph by Rigo
Freres, 25 x 16 cm. £120
Jules Perrot was born in France in 1810. He studied with Auguste Vestris and Salvatore
Vigano, two of the principal exponents of expressive ballet (as opposed to pure or formal ballet). He made his debut in 1830 at the Paris Opera, where, despite the period's prejudice against male dancers, he was highly applauded for both his classical and his mime dancing. He went on to be a great choreographer. |
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PLUNKETT, ADELINA:1691. Adolphe, Marie-Alexandre. ‘MELLE PLUNKETT, DANS LA MANOLA DE LA
FAVOURITE’. Full length portrait in costume. Auguste Bry, Paris 1861 [28493] 33 x 24 cm (sheet size) Lithograph with full hand
colour. £150
Following the success of Fanny Elssler's cachucha, Spanish dance became extremely popular with theatre audiences and many ballerinas evolved their own solos and pas de deux based around Spanish dance steps; versions of La Manola were danced by Fanny Cerrito and Adelina Plunkett. One critic declared that Plunkett, born in Belgium, and Elssler were 'the most authentic
Andalusians' - a comment that was received with incredulity by native Spanish dancers. |
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POLKA:1692. Werner Korponay de Komonka, M. de. ‘THE FAVOURITE AMERICAN POLKA’ as danced by Mlle Pauline Desjardins and Mons Gabriel de
Corponay. Composed for the piano and dedicated to Chevalier de Hulsemann, Charge d’Affaires to the Court of Austria, by Marie De Werner Korponay de
Komonka. Lithograph, showing the dancers in various positions. Firth & Hall, New York, ca. 1845 [26758] 29 x 23 cm. Uncoloured lithograph complete with music. £125
Gabriel and Pauline are credited for introducing the Polka to the United States in 1844. De Korponay was a retired /exiled officer in the Hungarian Army who later became Colonel of the American Army's 28th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry.
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POLKA:1693. Hanhart, M. & N. ‘NO. 1, THE ORIGINAL POLKA, AS DANCED AT THE SOIREES DU HAUT-TON IN LONDON, PARIS, VIENNA &’. The music by
Jullien. Music cover with a decorative border, showing two dancers, most probably Grisi &
Perrot, dancing the Polka. London, Jullien ca 1850 [26488] 33 x 25 cm. Original coloured lithograph. Excellent condition. £100
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POLKA:1694. Hanhart, M. & N. 'THE RHINE POLKA'. Composed on National German melodies and dedicated to Herr
Pischek. A delightfull dance scene by the banks of the Rhine, in Germany. Jullien & Co, London ca. 1850 [26759] 33 x 23 cm. Full coloured lithograph, complete with music. £90
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POLKA:1695. Beyer, F. ‘3 POLKAS {CAMELIA - ALPENHORN - UND TEUFELS - POLKA}’. Composed for the piano by Ferdinand Beyer. Fils de B.Schott, Mainz ca. 1850 [26762] 26 x 33 cm. Uncoloured lithograph, complete with music. £75
Ferdinand Beyer (1803–1863) was a classical musician. Beyer wrote the Elementary Instruction Book for the Piano Forte, a series of exercises for the right and left hand. |
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POLKA:1696. Koenig, H. ‘THE BOHEMIAN POLKA’, composed and respectfully dedicated to Viscount Bury, by Herrman Koenig. Front music cover with a fine image of a couple dancing in costume. Jullien, London ca. 1860 [26766] 33 x 24 cm. Coloured lithograph by Brandard with decorative border. Left outside border slightly damaged, but not affecting main image. £90
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QUADRILLE:1698. Bohlman, H. ‘LES FLAMBARTS’. Quadrille pour le piano by Henri
Bohlman. A delightful scene with members of High Society on the dance floor. Fils de B.Schott, Mainz ca. 1860 [26760] 26 x 33 cm. Uncoloured lithograph, complete with music. £75
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QUADRILLE:1699. Anonymous. ‘LA GITANA’. Quadrille for the pianoforte by W. Smallwood. Five pages of music with a decorative front cover of a gypsy dancer with
tamborine, in vignette form. B. Williams, London, ca. 1866 [28236] 28 x 18 cm. Uncoloured steel engraving. Excellent condition. £80
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RICHARD, ZINA:1700. Adolphe, Marie-Alexandre. ‘MELLE ZINA RICHARD, DANS MARCO
SPADA’. Zina Richard in costume in one of the minor roles in the ballet. Auguste Bry, Paris 1861 [28485] 33 x 24 cm (sheet size) Lithograph with full hand
colour. £120
Marco Spada was performed at the Paris Opera in 1857, a splendid piece of French Second Empire nonsense, featuring bandits, kidnapped heroines, lovers' misunderstandings, a rejected suitor who in a fit of pique agrees to marry someone he doesn't love and a bandit chief's daughter, freed to marry her lover when it transpires she was adopted. The subject was chosen because it provided two strong female roles for the Paris Opera Ballet's current stars, Carolina Rosati and Amalia Ferraris. |
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SALOME:1703. Gerschel. ‘IN THE BEARDSLEY MANNER: THE SALOME OF THE RUSSIAN BALLET’. MME.KARSAVINA IN THE TITLE ROLE OF ‘LA TRAGEDIE DE SALOME’. Music by Florent Schmitt. Taken from a photograph by
Gerschel. Illustrated London News 1914 [28007] 35 x 23 cm. Brown tinted print. Excellent condition. £90
Florent Schmitt (1870 – 1958) was a French composer. |
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TAGLIONI SET:1704. Chalon, A. E. ‘SIX DES PRINCIPAUX RÔLES DE
MELLE. TAGLIONI’. Rare collection of six lithographs in book form of Mademoiselle Marie Taglioni in different roles
(Auber/Le Dieu et la Bayadère, Deshayes/La Naïade, Didelot/Flore et Zéphire, Rossini/Wilhelm Tell). Printed by Lemercier in Paris after Alfred Edward Chalon for Rittner & Goupil ca. 1831 [27869] Small folio (31 x 24 cm). Original paper wrapper (title). 8pp. Excellent condition. £1500
Marie Taglioni (1804-84), Italian/Swedish ballerina of the Romantic ballet.
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TAGLIONI:1705. Lacauchie, A. ‘TAGLIONI’. From Galerie des Artistes Dramatiques de Paris. Full length image of the ballet dancer in costume, dancing La
Sylphide. Paris ca. 1840 [24315] Uncoloured lithograph by Alexandre
Lacauchie, 25 x 16 cm. White margins outside the image lightly spotted, otherwise very good condition. £120
Marie Taglioni (1804-84) was a famous Italian ballerina of the Romantic ballet era, a central figure in the history of European dance. She rose to fame as a dancer when her Italian father (and teacher) Filippo Taglioni created the ballet La Sylphide (1832) for her. She was the most celebrated Ballerina of the romantic ballet, which was cultivated primarily at Her Majesty's Theatre in London, and at the Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique in Paris.
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TAGLIONI:1706. Heath, Ch. ‘TAGLIONI. LA
SYLPHIDE’. Full length portrait of Marie Taglioni, Italian/Swedish ballerina (1804-84). Charles Heath, London 1845 [24361] 22 x 16 cm. Uncoloured steel engraving with decorative border from the ‘Beauties of the Opera & Ballet’ edited by Charles Heath. £75
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WALTZ:1709. [Gillray, J.]. ‘WALTZER AU MOUCHOIR’. A young male dancing with a much larger woman. After James Gilray pubished in London and Edinburgh by John Miller and W. Blackwood ca. 1820 [28230] 24 x 19 cm. Coloured etching. Excellent condition. £80
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WOLLRABE - HELMERDING:1710. Bloch, E. ‘AMALIE WOLLRABE UND CARL HELMERDING ALS NINETTE UND GIRARD IN EIN ALTER TÄNZER’, a farce by L. Günther. Berlin, Eduard Bloch ca. 1860 [26754] 20 x 15 cm. Full coloured lithograph. £90
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