Picture No | 10472761 |
Date | 1960 |
Description | Sleeping Beauty ballet, christening scene |
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The christening scene in a ballet version of the Sleeping Beauty, with the wicked fairy Carabosse putting her curse on the baby Princess in her cradle. Illustration to a fairytale by Charles Perrault, first published 1697, and performed as a ballet in several versions, the most famous being set to music by Tchaikovsky, first performed in 1890.
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Source | Cutout illustration by Lotte Reiniger in Illustrated London News, Christmas Number, 1960, p33 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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