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  • An angry looking face attempts to escape from the middle of the green silhouette of a man shouting "AIDS mich nicht an!" (AIDS won't get me!); a yellow illustration of a male and female running against a cityscape appears repeatedly across the background; an advertisement for a mobile Theatre Project in support of AIDS on behalf of the Ministry of Labor, Düsseldorf. Colour lithograph.

    Date
    [between 1990 and 1999]
    Reference
    674228i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Children playing in their nursery: performing at and attending the theatre. Chromolithograph after E. Lees after A. Havers, 1890.

    • Havers, Alice, 1850-1890.
    Date
    1890
    Reference
    16201i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Two designs for flags possibly for a theatrical company. Engraving by P. Yver, 1743.

    • Yver, Pieter, 1712-1787.
    Date
    1743
    Reference
    34047i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Body Positive presents Postive Theatre in Objects of affection ... : Lilian Baylis Theatre ... Sadler's Wells.

    Date
    1990
    • Ephemera
    • Online
  • An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares on stage with the aid of an assistant who is extracting a tooth from a man from the audience. Process print.

    Reference
    21011i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Madness at the theatre / Femi Oyebode.

    • Oyebode, Femi
    Date
    2012
    • Books
  • Theatrical entertainments consistent with society, morality, and religion. In a letter to the author of "the stage the high road to hell." Shewing That Writer's Arguments to be fallacious, his Principles enthusiastic, and his Authorities (particularly from the Ancients) misconstrued and perverted. With a counter-dedication to the Rev. Mr. Madan.

    • Flitcroft, Henry, 1697-1769.
    Date
    MDCCLXVIII. [1768]
    • Books
    • Online
  • A man dressed in costume as a theatrical caricature of a doctor. Line engraving.

    Reference
    20529i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Doctor Bossy, an itinerant medicine vendor, selling his wares on stage with the aid of assistants. Coloured etching by W. Birch, 1792, after A. van Assen.

    • Van Assen, Benedictus Antonio, -1817.
    Date
    1 April 1792
    Reference
    20579i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Entertainment in sign language for the deaf and dumb at the Hanover Square rooms, London. Wood engraving.

    Reference
    24162i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • A itinerant medicine vendor demonstrating a deceptive illusion to an audience, he is pretending to burn a man's back and then use ointment to clear up the burns, in order to sell his wares. Etching.

    Reference
    20671i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Edgar F. Cyriax ephemera. Box 4.

    Date
    [1928]
    • Ephemera
  • An essay upon the present state of the theatre in France, England and Italy. With reflections upon dramatic poetry in general, and the characters of the principal authors and performers of those nations. A Work absolutely necessary to be read by every Lover of Theatrical Exhibitions. The Stage, if under proper Regulations, would be a Source of the highest and most rational Amusement. Addison.

    Date
    1760
    • Books
    • Online
  • Deaf actors using sign language perform a play about Don Guzman to an audience in St Saviour's church hall, London. Wood engraving by G. Durand, 1877.

    • Durand, Godefroy, 1832-1896.
    Date
    [24 February 1877]
    Reference
    17967i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Theatre survey

    • American Society for Theatre Research.
    Date
    1960-
    • Journals
    • Online
  • An itinerant medicine vendor performing on stage at a bustling fair. Engraving by J. Moyreau, 1743, after P. Wouwerman.

    • Wouwerman, Philips, 1619?-1668.
    Date
    1743
    Reference
    20496i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Gendering tooth-drawers on the stage / M.A. Katritzky.

    • Katritzky, M. A.
    Date
    2000
    • Books
  • A devil (in human guise) deceiving and tricking an itinerant medicine vendor who proclaims to cure all ailments. Line engraving by S. Nicholls.

    • Nicholls, Sutton, active 1680-1740.
    Reference
    20542i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • A theatre stage with characters standing in a fairytale woodland. Watercolour and gouache by Mary Lorraine, 1966.

    • Lorraine, Mary, active approximately 1967.
    Date
    21.12.66 [21 December 1966]
    Reference
    3001112i
    Part of
    Adamson Collection
    • Pictures
  • Western European stages

    • Center for Advanced Study in Theatre Arts.
    Date
    c1989-
    • Journals
    • Online
  • A figure with an orange beak and a vest bearing the words 'Leo' moving three coloured cups around a green playing board bearing a skull, a pink heart and a clover leaf; an advertisement for the Mainz 'Stop AIDS' Festival on 23 August 1989 at the Kulturzentrum [Mainz], organised by the Landeszentrale für Gesundheitserziehung in Rheinland-Pfalz e.V. Colour lithograph by Klaus.

    Date
    1989
    Reference
    673732i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • An itinerant medicine vendor performing on stage with several assistants, selling their wares to a small audience in Rome. Etching by W. Unger after D. Helmbreker.

    • Helmbreker, Dirk, 1633-1696.
    Reference
    20514i
    • Pictures
  • Two men entertain the deaf and dumb in sign language at the Freemason's Tavern. Wood engraving.

    Reference
    24163i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Joseph Grimaldi rides on horseback behind Richard Norman astride a tiny horse in a hunting episode of the pantomime, Red Dwarf. Etching by W. Heath, ca. 1811.

    • Heath, William, 1795-1840.
    Date
    [1811?]
    Reference
    589895i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • The only Liliputian Opera Co. : Lucia Zarate, General Mite, together with the famous midgets.

    • Liliputian Opera Company.
    Date
    Liliputian Opera Co.,
    • Ephemera
    • Online
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