Madame Karina in 'Swan Lake'
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Madame Karina in 'Swan Lake'
by The Dover Street Studios Ltd, published by Rotary Photographic Co Ltd
bromide postcard print, 1922
3 1/2 in. x 5 3/8 in. (88 mm x 137 mm) overall
Bequeathed by Patrick O'Connor, 2010
Photographs Collection
NPG Ax160423
Sitterback to top
- Madame Karina (active 1910s-1920s), Danish ballet dancer and founder of Madame Karina's Royal School of Dancing; wife of Carl Johan Janssen. Sitter in 2 portraits.
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- The Dover Street Studios Ltd (active circa 1906-circa 1912), Photographers. Artist or producer associated with 32 portraits.
- Rotary Photographic Co Ltd (active 1897-1916), Photographers. Artist or producer associated with 1423 portraits.
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Events of 1922back to top
Current affairs
The British Broadcasting Company (later British Broadcasting Corporation) is established to experiment with radio broadcasting. It is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world, providing radio, television and Internet services to the public in Britain and across the world.Art and science
1922 is a key year for modernist literature with the publication of James Joyce's novel, Ulysses and T.S. Eliot's poem, The Waste Land. Both broke new ground with Ulysses (loosely based on Homer's Odyssey) introducing the 'stream of consciousness' narrative technique, and The Waste Land experimenting with multiple voices and a patchwork of literary, historic, mythological and personal allusions.International
The Soviet Union is formed under Joseph Stalin who takes power after Lenin suffers a debilitating stroke.In an attempt to avoid civil war, King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy invites Benito Mussolini to form a new government following the Fascist Party's March on Rome.
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