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Hon Mrs Algernon Bourke (1870-1967), n�e Guendoline Irene Emily
Sloane-Stanley.(1)
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Biog:
Only daughter of Hans Sloane-Stanley of Paultons, near Romsey, Hampshire;
m. (1887) Hon Algernon Henry Bourke, 3rd son of 6th Earl of Mayo.
Role:
Salammb�.(2) (for historical details of the character, see: salammbo.html)
Date:
5 July 1897.
Occasion:
The Devonshire House Ball, 2 July 1897.(3)
Location:
The Lafayette Studio, 179 Bond Street, London, W.
Descr:
FL standing.(4)
Costume:
"...drapery gown of white and silver gauze, covered with embroidery
of lotus flowers; the top of gown applique with old green satin
embroidered blue turquoise and gold, studded rubies; train of old
green broche." (The Gentlewoman, 10 July 1897, p 56c)
Costume
supplier: Alias, 36 Soho Square, London, W.(5)
Jewellery:
A serpent bangle and other items.(6)
Furniture
and Props: Painted backdrop.
anley); Burke's Peerage.
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| Mrs Bourke, after a painting by Ellis Roberts, published in The Lady 1900 |
Photographer:
The firm of J. Lafayette, 179 New Bond Street, London, W.
Evidence of
photographer at work: -
  No of poses:
3 (see also neg nos 1368-442 & 1368-444).
Copyright:
V&A Provenance: Pinewood Studios; acquired
1989.
References:
Biog:
Burke's Landed Gentry (see Sloane-Stanley); Burke's
Peerage.
Occasion:
Sophia Murphy, The Duchess of Devonshire's Ball, London,
1984.
Role and Costume:
(Role only) The Daily Graphic, 3 July
1897, p 13a; The Times, 3 July 1897, p 12a; The
Morning Post, 3 July 1897, p 7e; St. James's Gazette,
3 July 1897, p 9b; The Sketch, 14 July 1897, p 484b;
(Costume) The Standard, 3 July 1897, p 4c;
The Gentlewoman, 10 July 1897, pp 55 [line drawing]
& 56c. (See also The Gentlewoman, 8 January 1898, p
59 & p 47 [line drawing].)
Jewellery:
-
Reproduced:
Devonshire House Fancy Dress Ball, July 2 1897: A Collection
of Portraits in Costume of Some of the Guests, privately printed,
1899, p 137, (National Portrait Gallery Archives).
- Acknowledgements: -
- 1.
The name is hyphenated in Burke's Landed Gentry.
- 2.
See Gustave Flaubert, Salammb�, 1st published Paris,
1863. Operatic adaptations include Salammb�, Ernest de
Reyer, 1st performed Th��tre de la Monnaie, Brussels, 1890.
- 3. Mrs Bourke wore the costume
again for a 'grand tableaux vivants [sic] and musical burlesque'
at Blenheim Palace, January 1898, (see The Gentlewoman,
8 January 1898, p 59 & p 47 [line drawing].)
- 4. For the pose, see the portrait
called The Hon. Mrs Graham (1775-77), by Thomas Gainsborough,
National Gallery of Scotland since 1859 (National Galleries
of Scotland, London, 1989, p 97).
- 5. For costume sources, see
illustrations of operatic costumes for Reyer's Salammb�,
e.g. L'Illustration, 31 May 1892, p 449 & Le
Costume au Th��tre, No. 9, Paris, 1890-91. See also salammbo.html
and salammbo2.html
- 6. For the serpent bangle
as a fashionable accessory in the 19th century, see Shirley Bury,
Jewellery 1789-1910: The International Era, London 1991,
especially Vol II, pp 753-757. In this context, however, the wearing
of a snake bangle was probably a reference to the erotic snake
dance performed by Salammb� (see chapter entitled "Le serpent"
in Flaubert's novel). For representations of Salammb�'s snake
dance in art see Bram Dijkstra, Idols of Perversity. Fantasies
of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-Si�cle Culture, New York, 1986,
pp 306-313.
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