Sujet

Egyptian Hall Piccadilly - Rubini in his Great Feat, Beheading a Lady!, 1867. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Egyptian Hall Piccadilly - Rubini in his Great Feat, Beheading a Lady!, 1867. Signor Rubini, real name Philip Prentice Anderson (1844-1920), was the son of a Scottish magician. He worked on his father's shows before going solo in 1867. The beheading illusion could be sensational entertainment but one observer thought Rubini's casual style meant 'it would be better to omit the trick than to pretend to cut off a woman's head as coolly as he would carve a fowl'. Anderson later became a pioneer of moving pictures.

Date

1867

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The London Archives

Notre référence

HRM25A07_036

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

67,1Mo (3,6Mo) / 28,6cm x 58,9cm / 3376 x 6951 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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