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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Life behind the Curtain at the Grand opera; or, Dick and the Squire larking it with the Figurants is a 1 by George Cruikshank, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
The print shows a lively backstage scene at the Grand Opera house in Paris. It's a busy moment with ballet dancers chatting and visitors milling about. The people in the scene are doing different things, like talking or playing around. The details in the print are interesting, like the expressions on the people's faces. One man is even getting kicked by a ballerina, which adds to the chaos. To learn more about this kind of artwork, look up the technique of chiaroscuro.
A hand-coloured print by George Cruikshank, published in 1822, depicts a backstage scene at the Grand Opera house in Paris. It shows ballet dancers conversing with visitors behind the curtains, while a man identified as Dick holds a ballerina’s chin and another, described as a stout Squire, recoils from a sideways kick. An almost nude man stands in the right corner taking snuff, and a cherub chases another with a large club. The print was issued by John Fairburn on August 1, 1822, from his shop in Broadway, Ludgate Hill.
Read the full account in the museum source.
George Cruikshank or Cruickshank ( KRUUK-shank; 27 September 1792 – 1 February 1878) was a British caricaturist and book illustrator, praised as the "modern Hogarth" during his life.
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