Saturday, May 26, 2012

Scrap of the Day: Burlesque and Pantomime, 1890


Burlesque and Pantomime
Hildesheimer & Co., 1890
The Victoria & Albert Museum




This Victorian scrap, dating to about 1890, is a full-color chromolithograph depicting the head of a brunette girl.  She is wearing an Asian-style blue head-dress which is decorated with strings of pearls, rubies and a pink feather.  She is holding a pink, green and white ostrich feather fan up to her face.

The scrap, titled “Burlesque and Pantomime,” was part of a decorative series by the English printer  Siegmund Hildesheimer & Co.  This series showed popular types of fashionable, “society” people.  The scraps were designed to be collected and used on cards or for decorative projects. 



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