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The scene comes at the end of the ballet as the woodland creatres see Narcissus transformed into a flower.  The print is annotated by Cyril  Beaumont as a colour reference guide for the hand colourists.  S.477-2000 is a coloured state of the print.  \r\nBy 1919 there was an increasing interest in the Diaghilev's company and material relating to dance in general.  Beaumont produced a series of booklets under the series title Impressions of the Russian Ballet and a number of plywood figures of Diaghilev dancers in their famous roles.  He added 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 twenty two are listed in his catalogue, the work of Adrian Allinson, Ethelbert White, Randolf Schwabe and Eileen Mayo.   who had also worked on Impressions of the Russian Ballet booklets and the plywood figures. \r\n\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. \n \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.","physicalDescription":"Print of stylized setting of hills and trees with, to right beneath a niche with figures, a pool and large flower; crawling towards the pool are horned satyrs.  The image is framed by a multiple line border.   Signed Ethelbert White.  \r\nAround the margins, with arrows and lines pointing to relevant areas of the print, are detailed annotations regarding colouring.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"White, Ethelbert","id":"A5489"},"association":{"text":"Artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"Printing ink","id":"AAT187371"},{"text":"Paper","id":"x30308"},{"text":"pencil","id":"x30347"}],"techniques":[{"text":"Printing","id":"AAT53319"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Print on paper","categories":[{"text":"Entertainment & Leisure","id":"THES48959"},{"text":"Dance","id":"THES252984"},{"text":"Prints","id":"THES48903"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"T&P","id":"THES48602"},"images":["2009CT3257","2009CT2192","2016JG0175"],"imageResolution":"low","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"001","id":"THES351407"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Print","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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