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Photo, Print, Drawing Ciniselli Circus Water Pantomime.

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Title

  • Ciniselli Circus Water Pantomime.

Summary

  • This poster by an unknown artist is devoted to the Ciniselli Circus water pantomime (probably The Four Elements). Produced in Berlin by the firm Dinse & Eckert, the picture is a colored lithograph with the letters written in gold. The water pantomime was performed for the first time in Russia in 1892. In The Four Elements, water rushed down in a cascade and fountains gushed out in different places of the arena. Deer, elephants, and horses with riders swam in the arena lake. Pantomime, an art form in which the story is told through bodily movements and facial expressions rather than words, was an important part of 19th-century circus performances. The Ciniselli Circus (now the Bolshoi Saint Petersburg State Circus) was founded in 1877 by Italian-born Gaetano Ciniselli (1815-81). Housed in the first stone structure in Russia purpose-built for the circus, the Ciniselli was a popular entertainment of Saint Petersburg high society.

Created / Published

  • Berlin : Dinse & Eckert, 1890.

Headings

  • -  Russian Federation--Saint Petersburg--Saint Petersburg
  • -  1890
  • -  Circus
  • -  Circus Ciniselli
  • -  Circus performers
  • -  Entertainers
  • -  Pantomime

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 1 lithographed poster.
  • -  Original resource at: The Bolshoi St. Petersburg State Circus - Museum of Circus Art.
  • -  Content in Russian.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021669105

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Ciniselli Circus Water Pantomime. Russian Federation Saint Petersburg, 1890. Berlin: Dinse & Eckert. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021669105/.

APA citation style:

(1890) Ciniselli Circus Water Pantomime. Russian Federation Saint Petersburg, 1890. Berlin: Dinse & Eckert. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021669105/.

MLA citation style:

Ciniselli Circus Water Pantomime. Berlin: Dinse & Eckert. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021669105/>.