Légende

The Leopard Boy! in Farini's Gallery, 1881. 'On View Continuously, Day and Evening. Spotted black, white and yellow from head to foot'. Child with some sort of skin condition, 'performing' in Farini's World of Wonders Gallery at the Royal Aquarium in London. Showmanship was a hard business. People and animals with unusual characteristics were ruthlessly exploited and there was little care for them once they lost their popularity with the audience.

Date

1881

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/City of London : The London Archives

Notre référence

HRM25A13_337

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

42,3Mo (2,0Mo) / 30,6cm x 34,6cm / 3620 x 4089 (300dpi)

Mots clés

people male boy boys child children music arts playhouse entertainment art theatre skin design performance performers performer performing advertisement advertising text Victorian century advert print concept poster exhibition theatrical exploitation exhibit controversy B&W lettering venue ad controversial vaudeville scrapbook 19th century graphic design black & white black and white B W music hall nineteenth century ephemera Royal Aquarium portrait scrap book Unknown Hunt freak show stage show the Great 19th-century The London Archives entertainments scrapbook ethnological exposition human zoo variety act William Leonard Hunt William Leonard Guillermo Antonio Farini Farini Guillermo Antonio The Great Farini