IMAGE
Hand-coloured photographic print of The Great Benyon in performance with Chinese-style dragons and pagodas as stage props. ca 1955]
- Date
- 1955?
- Reference
- Eph-C-CABOT-Magic-1955-01
- Description
Poster/illustration / photograph shows a white-haired performer and his assistant, both in Eastern costume, standing beside a chest labelled "Gold Silver", on a stage surrounded by curtained proscenium arch. Chinese lantern hang abovre, and there is a large model pagoda behind the chest at centre stage. At left and right are models of dragons, archways and parasols.
Magician's identity assumed from photographs; see Nelson photo news', 24 June 1961, page 4; https://photonews.org.nz/nelson/issue/NPN8_19610624/t1-body-d4.html accessed 7 February 2019
Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Coloured by Leah Stinear
Quantity: 1 colour art print(s).
Physical Description: Photolithograph with gouache and gold paint, 245 x 400 mm.
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- Cabot, Charles Henry, 1890-1978: [Collection of ephemera, posters and programmes. 1900-1976] / Various artists :[Posters concerning magic and magicians, collected by Charles Cabot. 1918-70].
- Format
- 1 colour art print(s), Ephemera, Photolithographs, Photolithograph with gouache and gold paint, 245 x 400 mm., Orientation: Horizontal image
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Hand-coloured photographic print of The Great Benyon in performance with Chinese-style dragons and pagodas as stage props. ca 1955]. Cabot, Charles Henry, 1890-1978: [Collection of ephemera, posters and programmes. 1900-1976]. Ref: Eph-C-CABOT-Magic-1955-01. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/40665580More information can be found in our terms of use.