The Days’ Doings, November 26th, 1870

Volume 1, Number 18. This engraving is after an oil painting by Charles Desire Hue entitled The Laboratory, showing Jean-Jaques Rousseau and Madame de Warens dancing about in a kitchen. The painting has alternatively been titled as Merriment, painted in 1869 and a later version in 1877, of the same scene is called Flirtation in

The Days’ Doings November 19th 1870

Volume 1, Number 17. Mademoiselle Pitteri was dancing the lead in performances of Estella at the National Standard Theatre in Shoreditch. The show was originally to have been put on at The Alhambra Music Hall but that establishments dancing licence had not yet been renewed by the Middlesex Magistrates due to a performance where a