Toy shadow puppet theatre

Institution

Ajuntament de Girona

Object description:

Shadow theatre for the performance of Doña Experiencia. Industrias Gráficas Seix & Barral. Fabric screen (28'5 x 20'5 cm). It includes 5 shadow figures. With the appearance of cinema, the performances of Chinese shadows moved into the domestic sphere. Various toy companies marketed miniature shadows puppet theatres in the late nineteenth century for exclusively private consumption.

Object/Work type:

shadow puppets

Location:

Girona - Spain

Object measurements:

64 x 52 x 17,7 cm

Production

Industrias Gráficas Seix & Barral (company)

Date: 20th century

Place: Catalonia

Subject/theme:

shadow puppets, toys, visual arts

Resource

Rights Type: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ 

Date Taken: 1996

Record

Rights Type: CC0

Source: Ajuntament de Girona

Identifier: MC-MP01166-1