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This production is set in the carnival atmosphere of a pre-Lenten fair in 19th century St. Petersburg. Valentine Gross woodcut-style drawings of nursemaids dancing with coachmen or grooms at the fair were worked up for use in souvenir programmes and publications.\n\nThe sketches are part of the Valentine Gross Archive (THM/165), held by the V&amp;A Department of Theatre and Performance. Valentine Gross Archive contains research material and artwork, including sketches, studies, drawings, pastels and illustrations. Only the artwork materials have been catalogued with museum numbers and given item level descriptions found in the Search the Collections webpage. \r\n\r\nValentine Gross, a.k.a. Valentine Hugo, was a French art student in Paris in the 1910s. She became a ballet enthusiast, illustrator, researcher and painter. Valentine Gross witnessed annual seasons of Diaghilev Ballets Russes in Paris and made preminary sketches during performances and rehearsals between 1909 and 1919.  She later worked them up into pencil or coloured drawings of various degrees of finish including illustrations and paintings.\r\n\r\nSome of the sketches feature in the book <i>Nijinsky on Stage</i> by Richard Buckle, published in London by Studio Vista in 1971. \n\n","physicalDescription":"Drawing in black, red and white enclosed in a black rectangular frame. The image shows three Nursemaids in the ballet <i>Petrouchka</i>, dancing with their hands held in a circle, their plaits flying out. They wear full skirts, aprons, jackets and necklaces, and kokoshniks on their heads. In front is a bearded coachman in a long coat trimmed with tassels and tied with a belt. He wears full breeches and boots. His right arm is extended to the side and his left held on his waist.  He is squatting on the left leg, the right extended out to the side, performing the folk dance referred to as 'cobblers'. Beneath the image it reads VG PETROUCHKA 1912. 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