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Concept

Theater

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  • Six faces expressing the passions: (clockwise from top left) joy, fear, pity, scorn, anger, and grief. Engraving by Silvester, 1807.
  • An itinerant medicine vendor performing on stage with several assistants, selling their wares to a small audience in Rome. Etching by W. Unger after D. Helmbreker.
  • Male surgeon in the Operating Room.
  • Hans Buling, an itinerant medicine vendor, dressed in theatrical costume while selling his wares, assisted by another costumed person and a monkey. Engraving by I.R. Cruikshank after a Delft plate by B.S., 1750.
  • Imperial Theatre, Westminster : Royal American Midgets : General Mite, the smallest perfect man the world has ever produced now in his 18th year.
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    An angry looking face attempts to escape from the middle of the green silhouette of a man shouting "AIDS mich nicht an!" (AIDS won't get me!); a yellow illustration of a male and female running against a cityscape appears repeatedly across the background; an advertisement for a mobile Theatre Project in support of AIDS on behalf of the Ministry of Labor, Düsseldorf. Colour lithograph.

    | Date: [between 1990 and 1999] | Reference: 674228i
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    Three male surgeons operating under theatre lights, UK

    Adrian Wressell, Heart of England NHS FT
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    Children playing in their nursery: performing at and attending the theatre. Chromolithograph after E. Lees after A. Havers, 1890.

    Havers, Alice, 1850-1890. | Date: 1890 | Reference: 16201i
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    Two designs for flags possibly for a theatrical company. Engraving by P. Yver, 1743.

    Yver, Pieter, 1712-1787. | Date: 1743 | Reference: 34047i
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    Body Positive presents Postive Theatre in Objects of affection ... : Lilian Baylis Theatre ... Sadler's Wells.

    | Date: 1990
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