Cartobiorama

LOT 255 - Cartobiorama ou le Théâtre Transparent Portatif

Alphonse Giroux, 7 rue du Coq St Honoré à Paris, vers 1830.

 

 

“Filled with colored paintings or spare sets of thirty mechanical cardboard figures and enriched with a volume containing 10 pieces of Comedy Vaudeville made available to children.

The whole thing folds and is enclosed in a slight portfolio.”

 

Set of silhouettes of Chinese shadows in cut cardboard, armed with wire for manipulation. Some articulated.

Formerly arranged in binders by title, the many characters are to be grouped together to allow them to exchange again in the sketches of Vaudeville, provided by the merchant Giroux, specialized in princely gifts.

 

Titles of the sketches displayed on the storage drawer.

Le Bucheron - La Chasse aux Canard - Le Pont Cassé - Les Danseurs - Le Savetier - La Marmite

 

Condition

Many characters, some are to be completed. Large silhouettes of three-masted and various ships, marine animals (whale, sperm whale, various sea monsters), exotic (elephant, lions, rhinoceros) and farm; African hunting scene; circus troupe (equilibrist, perchist, rope-dancer, ballerina) magic lantern showman; street puppeteer; equestrian statue, fountain and pole of cocagne; donkeys seated at table; Parisian characters (couple in canoe, sapper climbing a ladder, shop of shoe-maker and his customers, mother spanking her child, administration of the clysterium)...

 

Size

Drawer 110 x 80 cm – Approx. Hight of characters 150/220 mm

 

Estimate

1000 / 1500 €

 

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