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Go and See the Grand New Comic Pantomime

c. 1880 58½ h × 37¼ w in (149 × 95 cm)
estimate: $1,700–2,000
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English puppeteers Thomas and John Holden made a big splash in France when they arrived in 1879 with their variety shows of marionettes and pantomimes. Here, they announce one such show in France with an animated clown bursting out of the lithographic paper. This is a woodblock engraving.
Stafford & Co., Nottingham

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