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The image of the dancer crystallised in the 1840s, creating an image that would transcend time and fashion - sleeked-down hair, pointed, low-necked bodice, or a laced bodice over a small blouse, and knee or calf-length bell-shaped skirt formed of tiers of tarlatan, with a diaphanous top layer. So strong was the image that, even today, people who have never see a ballet would recognize these prints as 'ballet dancers.'","physicalDescription":"A dancer stands in a mountainous landscape with a lake and chalet in the background delicately shaded in blue, green and pale orange.  Her back is to the viewer, with her head turned in profile to her left; her left arm is held down and her right is bent behind her back holding a wreath of pink roses.  Her hair is dressed with side loops and plaited into a coil at the back.  She wears an off-the shoulder white dress shaded blue with short sleeves and a skirt reaching to above the knee.","artistMakerPerson":[],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"J. 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Eventually numbering 145 items, some of which had belonged to the ballerina Anna Pavlova, it was one of the first and most important specialist collections in private hands.  \r\nRambert bought the first print as a wedding present but could not bear to give it away.  As the collection grew, it was displayed in the bar of the Mercury Theatre, the headquarters of Ballet Rambert, but in 1968, Rambert gave the collection to the Victoria and Albert Museum; seven duplicates were returned to Rambert, but these are catalogued in Ivor Guest's A Gallery of Romantic Ballet, which was published before the collection came to the V&A.  Although often referred to as a collection of Romantic Ballet prints, there are also important engravings of 17th and 18th century performers, as well as lithographs from the later 19th century, by which time the great days of the ballet in London and Paris were over.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Ballet Graces, No. 5. 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