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Suffragettes in wax: a cabinet meeting of the militant ladies who seek the vote

Suffragettes in wax: a cabinet meeting of the militant ladies who seek the vote. The figures of Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, Emmeline Pethwick Lawrence and Annie Kenny, created by Madame Tussaud's, an indication of the prominence of the suffrage campaign, and high profile of its leaders at the time. Date: 1908

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Taglioni's Farewell - by Kenny Meadows, 1845. Creators: Unknown, Joseph Kenny Meadows

Taglioni's Farewell - by Kenny Meadows, 1845. The final performance - or swansong - of Italian ballerina Maria Taglioni:one of the first and greatest dancers who ever graced the stage, and one to whose example we owe that poetical and elevated style of dancing which characterises, more or less, those whom she has left behind as worthy to occupy her place...the applause, as may be anticipated, was long and loud; bouquets in profusion fell at the feet of the charming danseuse, and she acknowledged them with a gratitude that she must have really felt towards the British public, who were amongst the first to appreciate her talent and are the last to bid her adieu...we may venture to assert that no real lover of art who witnessed her farewell on Saturday night but experienced a feeling of real regret'. From "Illustrated London News", 1845, Vol VII

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Scene from "Don Caesar de Bazan", at the Princess Theatre, 1844

Scene from "Don Caesar de Bazan", at the Princess Theatre, 1844. A performance on the London stage of "Don Cesar de Bazan", an opera comique by Jules Massenet:this very effective drama, first produced, in English, at the Princess Theatre...The scene is in the third act, in which the licentious King is detected by Don Caesar...The performance never fails to be received with an enthusiastic burst of applause, which it well deserves; for it is one of the finest
coups de theatre we ever remember to have witnessed'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol I

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