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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
La danse fait ses offrandes sur l'autel de l'harmonie is a 2 by Theophile Wagstaff, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This is a 1836 hand-colored print from London. It’s part of a set that pokes fun at a famous ballet called Flore et Zéphire. The artist used the name Théophile Wagstaff, but it was really William Makepeare Thackeray behind it. The print was engraved by Edward Morton. It also carries Wagstaff’s signature from back in 1836. Look next at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The hand-coloured print *La danse fait ses offrandes sur l'autel de l'harmonie*, engraved by Edward Morton and published in London on 1 March 1836, depicts two dancers—one male and one female—flanking a statue composed of musical instruments. The work, signed T.W. (Théophile Wagstaff) and drawn by William Makepeace Thackeray under that pseudonym, satirises the ballet *Flore et Zéphire* by Charles-Louis Didelot. It is part of a series of eight caricatures produced by Morton after Wagstaff’s original sketches.
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William Makepeace Thackeray was an English novelist and illustrator. He is known for his satirical works, particularly his 1847–1848 novel Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of British society, and the 1844 novel The…
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