H Beard Print Collection
1850
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1850
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
H Beard Print Collection is a 1850 by Thomas Packer, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This print shows people ice skating on a frozen lake. It’s a song sheet cover for Verdi’s opera arranged by Felix Gantier. The image is from a series called Operatic Gems. The print was made in London by Charles Jeffreys in the mid-1800s. It combines skating fun with opera music in one image. Check out more ice skating art at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The artwork is a chromolithograph serving as a song sheet cover for Verdi's opera *Un Ballo in Maschera*, arranged by Felix Gantier and published in London by Charles Jeffreys. It features skaters on a frozen lake, framed by snowy mountains and fir trees, and is part of the series *Operatic Gems No. 1*.
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Thomas Packer worked in the mid-1800s and left behind prints in the H Beard Print Collection.
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