H Beard Print Collection
14
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
14
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
H Beard Print Collection is a 14 by H. Berthoud, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This print holds a full-length image of Mlle. Noblet. She wears a pale gown with a crimson bodice and holds a white apron. The artist used fine dots to create soft shadows and light. The print was made in 1822. A colored version exists with a white gown. Both prints come from the same original image. Check out the Romanticism movement next.
A full-length stipple etching depicts Mlle. Noblet in the role of *La Paysanne Supposee*. She is shown wearing a pale yellow calf-length gown with a crimson front-lacing bodice that has a crenulated lower edge. In her left hand, she holds the edge of a delicate white apron, and she wears a pale yellow straw hat tilted to one side, trimmed with a blue ribbon. A hand-colored variant of this print, featuring a white gown, is held in the New York Public Library's collection.
Read the full account in the museum source.
H. Berthoud made 19th-century prints, likely news sheets or popular illustrations of the day. Their two surviving prints in this set show scenes from London life in the 1820s—one dated 14 March 1822 and another from…
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