Reconciliation de Flore & Zephyr
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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Reconciliation de Flore & Zephyr is a 2 by Edward Morton, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
A hand-coloured print titled *Reconciliation de Flore & Zephyr*, engraved by Edward Morton and published in London on 1 March 1836, depicts two dancers—a male figure supporting a female partner above his shoulders—centered on a stage with a woodland backdrop. The original sketch was signed by T.W. (Théophile Wagstaff), a pseudonym used by the writer William Makepeace Thackeray, who created the series to satirize Charles-Louis Didelot’s ballet *Flore et Zéphire*. The print is part of a set of eight caricatures, with a label on the reverse noting it was given to Gabrielle Enthoven by Alexander…
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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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