Flore et Zephyr, Ballet Mythologique
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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Flore et Zephyr, Ballet Mythologique is a 2 by Edward Morton, a Romanticism work, depicting Sheet Music, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
A hand-coloured print titled *Flore et Zephyr, Ballet Mythologique*, engraved by E. Morton and published in London on 1 March 1836, depicts a female dancer in a white, full-skirted dress adorned with roses, her arms crossed over her chest while positioned on stage. The work, originally sketched by William Makepeare Thackeray under the pseudonym Théophile Wagstaff, satirizes Charles-Louis Didelot’s popular ballet *Flore et Zéphire*. Part of a set of eight caricatures, this print was later donated to the Gabrielle Enthoven collection by Alexander Macmillan in 1927.
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Edward Morton kept a tiny printing press under his bed in Paris and ran off hand-colored lithographs at 2 a.m.
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