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The performance of a play representing the Dutch share price boom of 1720: Bombario blows bubbles before Princess Quinquenpoix. Etching, 1720.
Date: [1720?]Reference: 812285iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
Court performance of a Noh play: drummers in the foreground, performers on the stage and court women beyond. Colour woodcut by Chikanobu, 1880.
Hashimoto, Chikanobu, 1838-1912.Date: 1880Reference: 36734i- Pictures
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A performance by the "three-headed nightingale" (supposedly a woman with three heads). Reproduction of a wood engraving by E.A. Tilly.
Tilly, E. A.Reference: 85i- Pictures
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Lysistrata: two characters (Lysistrata and a man) advertising a performance of an adaptation by Ralf König of the theme of Aristophanes' play. Colour lithograph, 1991.
König, Ralf.Date: 1991Reference: 668855i- Pictures
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A male dancer jumping with his body and arms horizontal representing an advertisement for an AIDS benefit performance at the AT & T Danstheater, Den Haagh [The Hague] by t.b.v. AIDS Fonds. Colour lithograph.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 670703i- Pictures
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Puns, puppets of Shakespearian characters, fashions in bonnets, the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly, etc., representing Albert Smith's performance 'Ascent of Mont Blanc'. Lithograph after J.O. Parry, 185-.
Parry, John Orlando, 1810-1879.Date: 1850-1859Reference: 32508i- Pictures
An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares as part of a performance on stage, at a gigantic travelling country fair known as the Fiera dell' Impruneta. Etching by J. Callot.
Callot, Jacques, 1592-1635.Reference: 20443i- Pictures
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French prisoners of war, some in drag, in a performance of "Les maris de Léontine" at Sennelager prisoner of war camp in Germany. Photographic postcard, 1918.
Date: [1918?]Reference: 2044151iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.- Pictures
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German prisoners of war, one in drag, propose a toast during a performance at Leigh prisoner of war camp, Lancashire. Photographic postcard by H. Attenborough, 191-.
Attenborough, H.Date: [between 1910 and 1919?]Reference: 2044088iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.- Pictures
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Surgery: instruments for the performance of a glossectomy, including a pharingotome, an obturator and a speculum. Engraving with etching by A.J. Defehrt after L.-J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Reference: 47646i- Pictures
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A cathedral tower, advertising an AIDS benefit performance of T.S. Eliot's 'Murder in the cathedral' in Hong Kong. Colour lithograph by Ulrikka S. Gernes and Dermat Tatlow, ca. 1995, for AIDS Concern.
Date: [1995?]Reference: 678353i- Pictures
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A two-bodied figure playing an instrument advertising details of 'Plein la teuf', a performance [in support of AIDS] by La Scène Nationale Théâtre d'Évreux with a demonstration organised by Plaque Tournante, Didier Robin and Alain Lamy, from Friday 26 Febuary to Saturday 6 March 1993. Colour lithograph.
Date: 1993Reference: 672439i- Pictures
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A performance by the "three-headed nightingale" (supposedly a woman with three heads), seen from the side, revealing the trick whereby the appearance of three-headedness was achieved. Reproduction of wood engraving by E.A. Tilly.
Tilly, E. A.Reference: 86i- Pictures
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A curtained stage from which a keyboard, an arrow, musical notes, a mouth, an eye and various other symbols emanate; an advertisement for a benefit cabaret performance in support of World AIDS Day on 1 December 1993 at the Frankfurter Hof, Mainz. Colour lithograph, 1993.
Date: 1993Reference: 673365i- Pictures
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Left, catheters for the treatment of stones and disesases of the urethra; right, a boy held in the right position for the performance of the cutting of a stone and various instruments for this operation. Engraving with etching by R. Parr.
Reference: 47723i- Pictures
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Queen Victoria in a theatre watching a performance: Van Amburgh holding a whip and various animals - a lion, hyena, fox and sheep with the heads of Daniel O'Connell, Lord Durham, Lord Brougham and Lord Melbourne respectively. Lithograph by Philo H.B., 1839.
Philo HB.Date: 1839Reference: 37231i- Pictures
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Deaf and dumb people from the Hackney Mission to the Deaf and Dumb performing plays, sign language, and portraits of staff at the institution. Wood engraving by J. Swain, 1884, after H. Morehen.
Morehen, Horace.Date: 15 March 1884Reference: 17971i- Pictures
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Two boys performing as strongmen. Reproduction of a photograph.
Reference: 3875i- Pictures
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A performer wrestling with a trained tiger. Watercolour drawing.
Reference: 26833i- Pictures
A man making love to a woman while she is playing the guitar. Etching by D. Deuchar.
Date: [1803?]Reference: 555401i- Pictures
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Michel Boai, a "chin performer" (on the guitar?), performing with his associates, his wife playing the guitar and M. Engels playing the violin. Coloured lithograph, ca. 1830.
Date: 1830-1839Reference: 34148i- Pictures
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China: a chair equipped with blades for performances by mediums (tangki). Photograph, 19--.
Date: [between 1910 and 1919?]Reference: 663429i- Pictures
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One figure plays the piano and another the violin: two onlookers stand in the background. Process print after R. Boix.
Boix, Richard, 1894-1949.Date: 1900-1999Reference: 33969i- Pictures
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Two men in bed, one in drag: they have been woken up by the sound of burglars. Colour lithograph, 191-.
Date: between 1910 and 1919Reference: 2060526iPart of: The James Gardiner Collection.- Pictures
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A family with a young child by an open window singing together with the woman playing an instrument. Engraving by W.H. Pyne after Philip Vandyke.
Dijk, Philip van, 1683-1753.Reference: 27063i