Madame Adelaide Simonet in the character of Princess Ninette in Gaetan Appoline Balthazar Vestris’s Grand Ballet called Ninette at la Cour, King’s Theatre, 1781. Adelaide de Camp married the dancer Louis Simonet and accompanied him to England in the 1770s. Copperplate engraving by J. Thornthwaite after an illustration by James Roberts from Bell’s British Theatre, Consisting of the most esteemed English Plays, John Bell, London, 1781.

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