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The Showman at the right makes Petrushka, the Ballerina and the 'Blackamoor' dance for the crowds at the fair.  \n\r\nBy 1919, there was an increasing interest in the Diaghilev Ballet and material relating to dance in general.  Dance historian and publisher Cyril Beaumont had already produced a series of booklets on individual Diaghilev Ballets under the series title <i>Impressions of the Russian Ballet</i> and a number of plywood Diaghilev dancers in their famous roles.  He now decided to produce a series of 22 hand coloured prints of typical scenes from the Diaghilev Ballet repertory.  These were the work of Adrian Allinson, Ethelbert White and Randolf Schwabe who had also worked on <i>Impressions of the Russian Ballet</i> booklets and the wooden figures, and Eileen Mayo. \n \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 <i>Impressions of the Russian Ballet</i> series, described in Beaumont's book <i>Bookseller at the Ballet</i> - 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. \n \r\nMost of the hand-colouring for <i>Impressions of the Russian Ballet</i> 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.","physicalDescription":"At a Russian fair, against a grey blue sky, with to the left part of a 'big wheel' and a striped booth, at the back the Admiralty spire and a 'bridge' with square turret above, to the right a wooden wall; at the back a booth with a blue curtain with white spots with orange centres above which a striped pelmet and above a sign of two devils surrounding a flame.  On stage a crowd watches a dance by 'Blackamoor', dressed in green, a ballerina with a red coat and hat, pink skirt decorated blue and crimson pantalettes, and Petrushka, in a white tunic edged orange, trousers checkered yellow and orange and blue boots; to the right, his back turned, is the Showman, dressed in a yellow robe and hat decorated in orange.  \r\nPrint coloured by hand.  \r\nThe image is framed by a multiple line border one band of which is coloured yellow and one blue.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"White, Ethelbert","id":"A5489"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":""}],"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":"Black History","id":"THES48989"},{"text":"Dance","id":"THES252984"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"T&P","id":"THES48602"},"images":["2016JG0151"],"imageResolution":"low","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"001","id":"THES351407"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Print coloured by hand","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"Yes-general","note":"NB. While the term 'blackamoor' has been used in this record, it has since fallen from usage and is now considered offensive. The term is repeated in this record in its original historical context."}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Great Britain","id":"x32019"},"association":{"text":"printed","id":"x46159"},"note":"probably"}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1919-1923","earliest":"1919-01-01","latest":"1923-12-31"},"association":{"text":"Published","id":"x30682"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Cyril W. 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