Above: Mlle Joséphine Hullin. Source: gallica.bnf.fr. /BnF.
Below are further proposed themes, subjects, and images for the Dance Biography blog:
“LA GUIMARD in PARIS and LONDON”: Guimard, Marie Madeleine (1743-1816)
Boquet, Louis-René, 1717-1814 (designer). Tancrède Mlle Guimard guerrière 1764 [maquette de costume]. [n.p., 1764].. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8454777n?rk=21459;2
Gervais, Eugène (after F. Boucher). “Melle Guimard.” Paris,
[between 1840-1860]. The New York Public Library Digital Collections. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e2-0be6-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
Humphrey, E. (“The celebrated Mademoiselle G-m-rd or Grimhard from Paris.” [London], 1789. The New York Public Library Digital Collections. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e2-0c21-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
Dulertre (artist), and Jean-François Janinet, 1752-1814 (engraver). ‘Mlle Guimard dans le ballet du Navigateur). Paris, 1786. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b100269535?rk=42918;4
CHILD PRODIGY: Hullin, Joséphine (1808-1838).
Maleuvre (engraver). ‘Mlle Joséphine HULLIN, agée de 4 ans, dans la rôle du Petit Poucet dans la Botte de sept lieues. … Théatre de la Gaité Pantomime.’ A Paris, chez Mme Masson Libraire rue de l’Echelle, No. 10, [1812]. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b53177576j/f1.item
FORTHCOMING. “BORN IN AMERICA” Maywood, Augusta (1825-1877?) by Lynn Matluck Brooks.
Bedetti, Augusto (Lithographer). ‘Augusta Maywood.’ Ancona: Lit. Pieroni, [1853]. The New York Public Library Digital Collections.
Clay, Edward Williams, 1799-1857 (artist). ‘[La petite Augusta, aged 12 years, in the character of Zoloe, in the Bayadere].’ N.Y.,[1838]. The New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/05fe3de0-dd5d-0132-f092-58d385a7b928
“FAME IN THE FRENCH PROVINCES” Molard, Mlle. Zélie.
Noël, Francisque (lithographer), and F. Marin. ‘Mlle. Zélie Molard. Artiste du Théâtre de la Porte St. Martin. Rôle de Louise dans Le déserteur. Lith. de F. Noël.’ Paris,[184-]. The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1840 – http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/bde95d80-d70f-0132-3e8d-58d385a7bbd0
“ADOPTING AN IDENTITY” Montez, Lola (1818-1861)
Dartinguenave, Prosper Guillaume, b. 1815 (Artist), and Adolphe Menut (lithographer). “Lola Montez.” Paris, [184?]. The New York Public Library Digital Collections. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/aac27cc0-1454-0133-8e55-58d385a7b928
‘Portrait of Lola Montez,’ [183-?-185-?]. The New York Public Library Digital Collections. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/e85bdbb0-8cc2-0134-3629-00505686a51c
FORTHCOMING on Nautch Girls by Aryama Bej, Jadavpur University.
“THE COST OF FAME” Nielsen, Augusta W. (1822-1902)
Senties, Pierre Asthasie Théodore, b. 1801 (Artist), and Emilien Desmaisons,1812-1880 (Lithographer). ‘Melle. Augusta Nielsen. Première danseuse du Théâtre Royal de Copenhague. Lith. par E. Desmaisons d’après Senties.’ Paris, [1842?]. The New York Public Library Digital Collections. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ffc6df70-1454-0133-69f6-58d385a7b928
Offers of contributions, on these or other subjects, to the editor Sarah McCleave, s.mccleave@qub.ac.uk.