• Title
  Tatiana Riabouchinska darning the ballet shoes, between 1938-1940 / photographer unknown
• Call number
  P1/1347
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  between 1938-1940
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  441974
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 24.2 x 20.2 cm. - 1 photoprint
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  For more information on Riabouchinska in Australia, see: Dancing around the world / Arnold Haskell -- Lond. : Gollancz, 1937
  
  For a discusson of this photograph, see: "Tatiana Riabouchinska" / Valerie Lawson, in her blog Dancelines. dancelines.com.au (accessed December 24, 2013)
• Scope and Content
  Riabouchinska, 21 when she came to Australia, sits on a park bench, possibly near Rushcutters Bay Baths, and darns a ballet shoe. She wears a one piece belted sunsuit, with a scarf around her hair and leather sandals on her feet.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
• Published Information
  Published in: Entertaining Australia : an illustrated history / Katharine Brisbane (ed.). Sydney : Currency Press, 1991 (p.243)
• General note
  
  Transferred from P1/Riabouchinska, Tatiana (BM), May 2010
  Digital order no:a4360047
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Riabouchinska stayed at the Rockley flats, 67 (after 1971 - 65) Elizabeth Bay Road, Elizabeth Bay in 1940
  
  Reference:
  Sydney Morning Herald, Thursday, January 18, 1940 (information supplied by Valerie Lawson, March 2011)
• Date note
  
  Previously dated "between 1937-1940", Riabouchinska came on the second and third de Basil tours only
  
  Reference:
  Information supplied by Valerie Lawson, March 2011
• Name
  Riabouchinska, Tatiana
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  ballet dancers
  portraits
  sandals
  sewing
  shoes
  shorts
  
• Place
  Rushcutters Bay Park (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3219548

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