Picture No | 10231050 |
Date | 1861 |
Description | Shadow Dance 1861 |
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Christmas season, Victorian children being amused by the shadow theatre. Magic lanterns are at hand and many over apparatus profuse of grotesque figures that appear and vanish causing intense amazement and provoking obstreperous mirth.
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Source | Engraving by H. K Browne in 'The Illustrated London News', 21 December 1861, page 643 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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