Image of a head-and-shoulder portrait of animal trainer Giacomo Galetti framed by the head of a white and yellow cockatoo, with vignettes of his trained birds in mini theatrical sets performing feats and acting in dramatic scenes, including parrots surrounding a burning castle as firefighters with fire ladders and dressed in mourning while pulling a coffin towards a graveyard. Probable date range approximated by cataloger based on newspaper advertisements for Galetti and his birds dating from the late 1870s into the 1880s. "New York Popular Publishing Co., 37 Bond Street, N. Y."--text, bottom margin centered. "Shakespeare / Dante"--text, upper middle of image.
Type
image
Extent
1 woodcut : color printed ; overall 56.83 x 32.07 cm (22 3/8 x 12 5/8 in.)
Galetti, Giacomo--Portraits Animals--Pictorial works Animal trainers--Pictorial works Birds--Pictorial works Fire fighters--Pictorial works Theatrical productions Relief prints--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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