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Signora Morlacchi

Date: circa 1870

Dimensions:  Height:  29.2 cm (11.5 in.),  Width: 24.1 cm (9.5 in.)

Medium:  Lithograph

Owner/Location:  Private Collection

Description

Following Millet’s graduation from Harvard in 1869 he went to work at the Boston Daily Advertiser and a few other publications.  During his career he often illustrated his own articles for the newspapers and magazines he wrote for.  It is not surprising that he early on in 1870 did several lithographs, drawings on stone, that have survived.  Millet’s lithograph of Signora Morlacchi, is one such lithograph. She was a celebrated dancer that regularly performed in Boston at the time. It also  during this time that Millet studied with Dominique Fabronius, a well known lithographer and Millet’s known lithographs show his talent and training in this medium, even so early in his career.

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Research / Publications

Research:

Gina M. D’Angelo, Francis Davis Millet: the Early Years of “A Cosmopolitan Yankee,”1846-1884, (PhD diss., City University of New York, 2004) 29-32

Publications:

Francis Davis Millet