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Credit
Gustav Luzernow in several small inset portraits. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Gustav Luzernow in several small inset portraits.
- Date:
- 1907
- Reference:
- 2044508i
- Part of:
- The James Gardiner Collection.
- Pictures
- Online
About this work
Also known as
Previous title, replaced May 2022: Gustav Luzernow, an actor, in drag, posing in several small inset portraits. Process print, 1907.
Publication/Creation
Dresden : Gebr. Ziegner, Kötzschenbroda-Dresden, 1907.
Physical description
1 postcard : process print ; 8.8 x 14 cm
Contributors
Related material
The same actor is represented in the following postcards held at Wellcome: 2044505i and 20445121i
Lettering
Gustav Luzernow. Damendarsteller in seinen Typen.
Lettering printed in red on recto. There is further lettering underneath in German, written in black.
Notes
The following description was provided by James Gardiner: "Six inset portraits of the German quick-change artist Gustav Luzernow (dates unknown), including one of him not in drag and five as female characters. This kind of quick-change, multi-faceted, frequently musical, variety drag act seems to have been popular in continental Europe...but was practically unknown in the United Kingdom."
This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.
Reference
Wellcome Collection 2044508i
Type/Technique
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Where to find it
Photograph album labelled ‘Drag'
Location Status Access Closed stores