Accession number
PML 352845
Published
Berlin : Adolf Engel, ca. 1880
Credit line
Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1987.
Notes
Carrolliana.
Incomplete theater with 6 reversible side panels with wooden pegs depicting 2 sceneries of a forest and living parlor with 11 character figures mounted on wood blocks to keep them upright with wires (41 cm).
"According to the Parrington sale cat. lot 664 (14 Nov. 1928), the theatre was given to Mrs. M. Parrington by one of Dodgson's sisters. It is listed as lot 644 in the sale cat. of Dr. John Cresswell Brigham (20 Nov. 1935), and as lot 83 in a later, unidentified sale (not the Eldridge Johnson or Erwin sales)"--Houghton checklist.
Library's copy lacks background.
Three figures are damaged.
Incomplete theater with 6 reversible side panels with wooden pegs depicting 2 sceneries of a forest and living parlor with 11 character figures mounted on wood blocks to keep them upright with wires (41 cm).
"According to the Parrington sale cat. lot 664 (14 Nov. 1928), the theatre was given to Mrs. M. Parrington by one of Dodgson's sisters. It is listed as lot 644 in the sale cat. of Dr. John Cresswell Brigham (20 Nov. 1935), and as lot 83 in a later, unidentified sale (not the Eldridge Johnson or Erwin sales)"--Houghton checklist.
Library's copy lacks background.
Three figures are damaged.
Description
11 figures and theatrical backdrop comprised of 6 panels
Provenance
Lewis Carroll; Mrs. M. Parrington; John Cresswell Brigham; from the Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Lewis Carroll Collection.
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