Ah! Quel plaisir..... ah! quel plaisir. Ah quel plaisir d'ête Soldat. (Dame Blanche.)
Lith. de Gobert et C.ie.
A Paris, chez Genty, Editeur, rue St Jacques No 33. [n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph with hand colour. Sheet 270 x 355mm (10½ x 14").
A cockerel, monkey and cat dressed in 'Scottish Highland' dress for a production of the opera 'La Dame Blanche', based on episodes from no fewer than five works of the Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott, including his novels Guy Mannering (1815), The Monastery (1820), and The Abbot (1820). First performed in 1825, an English production was staged as 'The White Lady' at the Drury Lane Theatre in 1826 and the U.S.A. the following year.
[Ref: 54319] £180.00
A Paris, chez Genty, Editeur, rue St Jacques No 33. [n.d., c.1830.]
Lithograph with hand colour. Sheet 270 x 355mm (10½ x 14").
A cockerel, monkey and cat dressed in 'Scottish Highland' dress for a production of the opera 'La Dame Blanche', based on episodes from no fewer than five works of the Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott, including his novels Guy Mannering (1815), The Monastery (1820), and The Abbot (1820). First performed in 1825, an English production was staged as 'The White Lady' at the Drury Lane Theatre in 1826 and the U.S.A. the following year.
[Ref: 54319] £180.00