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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Print Collection is a 17 by The Illustrated London News, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This print shows the crowd at the Royal Marionette Theatre in London. The theatre opened in January 1852 with tiny marionettes performing operas and dances. An actual ticket for three seats is still pasted onto the page. The scene mixes two art styles: Impressionism and Realism. The playbills list shows how popular these puppet shows were back then. Look up The Illustrated London News next.
A print from *The Illustrated London News* dated 17 January 1852 depicts the curtain call at the Royal Marionette Theatre in Adelaide Street near the Strand, London. The theatre, which opened five days earlier, featured performances by Signor Brigaldi’s marionettes, including operas, burlesques, vaudevilles, ballets, and spectacles, accompanied by an orchestra of musicians from Italian opera houses. A ticket for three persons to the stalls is attached to the print.
Read the full account in the museum source.
The Illustrated London News, founded by Herbert Ingram and first published on Saturday 14 May 1842, was the world's first illustrated weekly news magazine.
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