• Title
  Olga Spessiva in Swan Lake costume, 1934 / Sydney Fox Studio, 3rd Floor, 88 King St, Sydney
• Creator
  Sydney Fox Studio
• Call number
  P1/798
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  Sept-Nov 1934
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  442191
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 1 silver gelatin photoprint - 24.4 x 19 cm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Spessivtzeva was billed here as Spessiva for "phonic simplicity" [and also because it made her name more like that of the great Pavlova?] -- (Reference: Entertaining Australia : an illustrated history / Katharine Brisbane (ed.). Sydney : Currency Press, 1991 (p. 225)
  
  "The Australian premieres of Ivanov's Act II of Swan Lake ... were seen at His Majesty's Theatre in Brisbane in October 1934 ..." -- (Entertaining Australia, p. 225)
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
• General note
  
  Transferred from P1/Spessivtzeva, Olga (BM), March 2010
  Digital order no:a1528613
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Photographer's stamp on the verso of the photograph
  "To Mary Marlowe, Olga Spessiva" -- signature on the bottom right hand corner of the photograph
• Name
  Dandre-Levitoff Russian Ballet
  Spessivtzeva, Olga, 1895-
  Swan Lake, Act II (ballet)
  
• Subject
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  ballet
  ballet dancers
  portraits
  theatrical costumes
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3217921

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