Image of a central image of a dance performance in a royal court arena surrounded by a collage of seven vignettes showing dramatic and dance scenes with performers wearing historical costumes in medieval town settings, captioned "A monkey bride," "The Corps De Ballet," "Ephemerals," The Plain of Windmills," "The Magic Bush's Disclosure," "The Gondola Fete," and "Brilliantine's Promise"; ornamented with palm fronds with a snake curled around them; the poster advertises the dance spectacle "Enchantment" produced by the Kiralfy Brothers. Margins trimmed on local copy; probable date range approximated by cataloger; the show was first performed in the United States in 1879; item is pasted to verso of another theatrical poster (priJLC_ENT_000961).
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : hand colored ; overall 54.61 x 76.84 cm (21 1/2 x 30 1/4 in.)
Actors--Pictorial works Actresses--Pictorial works Ballet--Pictorial works Dancers--Pictorial works Historical dramas Historical pageants--Pictorial works Theatrical productions Kiralfy Brothers Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc) Theatrical posters--American. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Entertainment Large Size Music and Theater The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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