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Setting of pyramids and Egyptian columns, in centre of which stands Cleopatra surrounded by dancing attendants and prostrated attendants.  Print coloured by hand.  Published 1920s.\nAt the back, an orange pyramid with a decorative strip in yellow and green, against a blue sky; in front pink Egyptian columns, that on the right supporting an orange frieze with stylized birds and snakes.  The stage is backed by two purple columns and statues, the floor is carmine and in the centre stands Cleopatra, dressed in yellow with geometric designs, surrounded by dancing girls, prostrated attendants and musicians; at the far left, two standing figures, the woman dressed in orange and red with a blue sash around the hips, the man in a decorated cloth around the hips.  Print coloured by hand.  \r\nThe image is framed by a multiple line border one band of which is coloured green, one carmine and one orange.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Allinson, Adrian","id":"A5457"},"association":{"text":"Artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":"Possibly"}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"Watercolour","id":"x33202"},{"text":"Gouache","id":"AAT70114"},{"text":"Printing ink","id":"AAT187371"},{"text":"Paper","id":"x30308"}],"techniques":[{"text":"Printing","id":"AAT53319"},{"text":"Hand colouring","id":"AAT133555"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Print coloured by hand in watercolour and gouache on paper","categories":[{"text":"Entertainment & Leisure","id":"THES48959"},{"text":"Dance","id":"THES252984"},{"text":"Prints","id":"THES48903"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"T&P","id":"THES48602"},"images":["2009CT3252","2009CT2230","2016JG0173"],"imageResolution":"low","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"001","id":"THES351407"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Print coloured by hand","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Great Britain","id":"x32019"},"association":{"text":"printed","id":"x46159"},"note":"probably"}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"second half 1920s","earliest":"1925-01-01","latest":"1929-12-31"},"association":{"text":"Published","id":"x30682"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Cyril W. 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Beaumont had already produced a series of booklets on individual Diaghilev Ballets under the series title Impressions of the Russian Ballet and a number of wooden cut-out Diaghilev dancers in their famous roles.  He now decided to produce a series of hand coloured prints of typical scenes from the Diaghilev Ballet repertory.   He kept no records of when he began publishing the prints nor how many were produced, although he reckoned about twenty, mostly the work of Adrian Allinson, Ethelbert White and Randolf Schwabe who had also worked on Impressions of the Russian Ballet booklets and the wooden figures, and Eileen Mayo.  \r\nIn all these works, Beaumont strove to capture the exact moments of the ballet as well as artists' interpretations. Possibly the design of each print followed the painstaking search for accuracy that had characterised the creation of the illustrations for Impressions of the Russian Ballet series, described in Bookseller at the Ballet - choosing the significant moment, watching the ballet night after night to check details of the poses and grouping (not easy when the stage was full of individual dancers and movement), going backstage to sketch scenery and borrow costumes - although some prints appear to be 'composite' rather than specific tableaux.  \r\nMost of the hand-colouring for Impressions of the Russian Ballet booklets was the work of Beaumont and his wife, Alice, and it is possible that both were also involved in colouring the prints, although eventually other artists were employed on both projects.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Print by Ethelbert White artist of a scene from Mikhail Fokine's 1909 ballet <i>Cleopatre</i>, in redesigned setting by Robert Delaunay, 1918, Diaghilev Ballets Russes","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Beaumont, Cyril, Bookseller at the Ballet, Memoirs 1891-1929: London, C. 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