• Title
  Adeline Genee, premiere danseuse, 1913 / photographer unknown
• Call number
  P1/619
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  1913
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  448972
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - image 15.2 x 10 cm. , mount (trimmed) 21.7 x 20 cm. - 1 panel photoprint
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  "A great era of ballet in Australia began in June 1913 when Adeline Genee, a dancer of world renown, arrived with a company called the Imperial Russian Ballet. The most illustrious dancer to have appeared here ... [Genee] retired after the tour, though she occasionally appeared in charity performances in England, where she lived until her death in 1970" -- For details of Genee's tour of Australia in 1913 and a portrait of her held in the Latrobe Library, wearing the same dress, see: Entertaining Australia : an illustrated history / Katharine Brisbane (ed.). Sydney : Currency Press, 1991 (p.172-173)
  For a career biography of Adeline Genee to 1911, see: Who's who in the theatre : a biographical record of the contemporary stage / compiled and edited John Parker. Lond. : Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1912 (pp.196-197)
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: created before 1955
• General note
  
  Transferred from P1/Genee, Adeline (BM), February 2010
  Digital order no:a4216019
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  No photographers' stamp
  "Adeline Genee, The Danish Dancer in 1913" -- in Marr Thompson's hand, lower edge of mount
  "Yours sincerely / Adeline Genee / 1913" -- signature lower right hand corner of the photograph
• Name
  Genee, Adeline, 1878-
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  ballet dancers
  dancing
  portraits
  theatrical costumes
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1656877

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