Chromolithograph after an unknown artist Nineteenth Century The George Speaight Archive at The Victoria & Albert Museum |
I very much like this Nineteenth Century print of a beautiful drawing of a budding Punch professor. A young boy with a puppet booth carries a drum on his back. In front of him he walks his puppet, a marionette figure of Mr. Punch.
What’s interesting about this is that by the Nineteenth Century, most Punchinellos were glove puppets which were performed in the Victorian style fit-up which first comes to mind when we think of Punch & Judy. In fact, marionette Punch and Judy shows were a century out of vogue in the U.K. So, this was a sort of nod to the antique and that makes it all the more charming.
Of course, this is from the George Speaight Archive at the V&A.
The reverse shows a page from an album. |
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