Toy shadow puppet theatre
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.
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