Draculette

Her sexy Romanian accent makes her ripe for caricature - the Transylvanian connection, plus her insistence on never letting direct sunlight touch her ivory skin, have earned her the nickname "Draculette".

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Julia Llewellyn Smith 2011

Her sexy Romanian accent makes her ripe for caricature - the Transylvanian connection, plus her insistence on never letting direct sunlight touch her ivory skin, have earned her the nickname "Draculette".

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Julia Llewellyn Smith 2011

Christian Louboutin's rose suede 'Draculette' pumps

Shoewawa 2008

In the four versions in this show (others exist), we see the original black-and-white litho from the Epstein collection, and then the full Draculette treatment it gets a year or so later, in a hand-colored impression from the gallery's own holdings: Munch prints his litho onto ghoulish green paper, then brushes the woman's hair in orange-red so that it can drip bloodlike down her victim.

At National Gallery, Edvard Munch's 'Prints' reveal artist's methodical process 2010

No only is it in May rather than in August to take advantage of the (relatively) cooler weather, but there will be fewer staff, uh "cast members," obsessively scraping gum off the streets and arguing with us if we can get Dee Monn or Draculette stitched on our Mickey ear hats; and fewer characters in costume.

Lisa Derrick: It's a Small, Sucky World: Disneyland Sacks 1,900 Park Employees 2009

And this year I came to the opera house and at the stage door of the Metropolitan Opera House, an American composer, he really goes in a serious way: 'I have the score of an opera for Angela Gheorghiu, named Draculette!'

Jessica Duchen's Classical Music Blog 2009

And because I am Romanian, because of Dracula, someone, some journalist somewhere, of course, didn't know anything else but Dracula from Romania, so he gave me a nickname, Draculette!

Jessica Duchen's Classical Music Blog 2009