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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

Children playing in their nursery: performing at and attending the theatre. Chromolithograph after E. Lees after A. Havers, 1890.

Date

1890

Reference

16201i

Two designs for flags possibly for a theatrical company. Engraving by P. Yver, 1743.

Date

1743

Reference

34047i

Body Positive presents Postive Theatre in Objects of affection ... : Lilian Baylis Theatre ... Sadler's Wells.

Date

1990

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

Madness at the theatre / Femi Oyebode.

Date

2012

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.

Date

MDCCLXVIII. [1768]

A man dressed in costume as a theatrical caricature of a doctor. Line engraving.

Reference

20529i

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.

Date

1 April 1792

Reference

20579i

Entertainment in sign language for the deaf and dumb at the Hanover Square rooms, London. Wood engraving.

Reference

24162i

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

Edgar F. Cyriax ephemera. Box 4.

Date

[1928]

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

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.

Date

[24 February 1877]

Reference

17967i

Theatre survey

Date

1960-

An itinerant medicine vendor performing on stage at a bustling fair. Engraving by J. Moyreau, 1743, after P. Wouwerman.

Date

1743

Reference

20496i

Gendering tooth-drawers on the stage / M.A. Katritzky.

Date

2000

A devil (in human guise) deceiving and tricking an itinerant medicine vendor who proclaims to cure all ailments. Line engraving by S. Nicholls.

Reference

20542i

A theatre stage with characters standing in a fairytale woodland. Watercolour and gouache by Mary Lorraine, 1966.

Date

21.12.66 [21 December 1966]

Reference

3001112i

Part of

Adamson Collection

Western European stages

Date

c1989-

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

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.

Reference

20514i

Two men entertain the deaf and dumb in sign language at the Freemason's Tavern. Wood engraving.

Reference

24163i

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.

Date

[1811?]

Reference

589895i

The only Liliputian Opera Co. : Lucia Zarate, General Mite, together with the famous midgets.

Date

Liliputian Opera Co.,