Sujet

Egyptian Hall - Maskelyne and Cooke - England's Home of Mystery, Screvins in Two Pieces, 1880. Creator: Unknown.

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Egyptian Hall - Maskelyne and Cooke - England's Home of Mystery - every evening…Screvins in Two Pieces, 1880. Spiritualism became very popular in Victorian times. Many people advertised their paid services as mediums, or interpreters who claimed contact with the spirit world. They held seances in darkened rooms or theatres where ghostly figures would appear and objects move by unseen forces. However, others were sceptical and none more so than John Neville Maskelyne (1839-1917) and his partner, magician George A Cooke (1825-1905). Maskelyne was an inventor who devised his own conjuring tricks. From 1873 Maskelyne and Cooke performed at the Egyptian Hall showing these wonders as clever illusions and not due to intervention from another world. They included beheading illusions, as advertised here.

Date

1880

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The London Archives

Notre référence

HRM25A07_053

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Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

77,5Mo (5,6Mo) / 55,6cm x 35,0cm / 6562 x 4130 (300dpi)

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