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Puppets

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Puppet theater

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Images from the collections

Images about Puppets

16 images from works
  • Endo Mesopin ... : Potencia por almacenamiento, Endo Acon Adekon vitaminas hidrosolubles /cLaboratorios Endo de Mexico, S.A.
  • A phrenologist and some society people in a parlour. Lithograph by H. Jannin after L.C. Bommier (?).
  • Señor doctor: movilice sus articulaciones como un hilo, recobre la flexibilidad, agilidad y soltura de sus miembros reumaticos y adoloridos : prescribales confiado: Gentisato de Sodio Gabail / A. Rueff y Cia.
  • Wonderland Whitechapel Road (next to St. Mary's Station) ... Easter Monday April 6th, 1896, and during the week ...
  • A young woman sits holding a puppet of Punchinello in her hand. Engraving.
  • A man has two dancing dolls on a board, controlled by a string attached to his leg. Coloured etching.
  • Burma: a puppet show with musicians and audience. Gouache painting.
  • A phrenologist and some society people in a parlour. Lithograph by H. Jannin after L.C. Bommier (?).
  • Above, a man with a closed sack operates a string puppet; below, the man opens the sack to reveal children inside. Colour woodcut, 18--.
  • Wonderland Whitechapel Road (next to St. Mary's Station) ... Easter Monday April 6th, 1896, and during the week ...
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Works from the collections

18 works

    • Pictures

    Three characters on the stage of a puppet theatre; an advertisement for Puppets against AIDS by the African Research and Educational Puppetry Programme (AREPP). Colour lithograph by Andrew Lindsay, 1993.

    | Date: 1993 | Reference: 678928i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A young woman sits holding a puppet of Punchinello in her hand. Engraving.

    | Date: 1800-1899 | Reference: 33667i
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Endo Mesopin ... : Potencia por almacenamiento, Endo Acon Adekon vitaminas hidrosolubles /cLaboratorios Endo de Mexico, S.A.

    | Date: [1962]
    • Pictures

    Three puppet characters against a pink wall with a city beyond representing an advertisement for Puppets against AIDS by the African Research and Educational Puppetry Programme (AREPP). Colour lithograph, ca. 1990's.

    | Date: [1996?] | Reference: 678933i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Above, a man with a closed sack operates a string puppet; below, the man opens the sack to reveal children inside. Colour woodcut, 18--.

    | Date: [between 1800 and 1899] | Reference: 729476i
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Related topics

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
AIDS (Disease) - Prevention
Johannesburg
Upper class
Costume - France

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