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    • Title:A new and original comic Christmas pantomime Sleeping Beauty in the wood!, or, Harlequin and the magic horn : 8 plates characters, 13 plates scenes, 4 plates wings, 2 plates of tricks, total 27 plates : adapted only for Pollock's Characters & scenes.
    • Publication:[London] : Printed and published by B. Pollock, [between 1876 and 1917]
    • Physical Description:16 pages ; 17 cm.
      27 sheets : lithographs ; 17 x 22 cm.

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      • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
        Request for use in the YCBA Study Room

      • Call Number: Toy Theater Pollock Sleeping
      • Status:No information available 
      • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Hans P. Kraus
       
    • Local Notes:BAC: British Art Center copy is complete. The sheets of characters and wings are cut. Uncolored.
    • Notes:The present toy theater characters and scenes were first published by John Kilby Green in 1850 and subsequently by John Redington. Pollock succeeded Redington in 1876 and republished the same plays. See: Speaight.
      In 1917, Pollock's address changed from "... London, N. ..." (as in the present publication) to "... London, N.1 ..."
      The eight sheets of characters include 64 figures.
    • Biographical / Historical note:Juvenile drama emerged in England soon after 1800, forming itself from the adult drama of the time. The plays were adapted from their original stage version into a miniature toy version with actors, costumes and scenery intended for a juvenile audience. Characters and scenes were intended to be cut out and dramatized.
      Sir Lumley St. George Skeffington's adaptation of The sleeping beauty was first performed at Drury Lane in 1805. See: Speaight.
    • Variant and related titles:Sleeping Beauty in the wood!
      Harlequin and the magic horn
    • Format:Visual Material
    • Series:Pollock's juvenile drama
      Pollock's juvenile drama.
    • References:Speaight, G. The history of the English toy theatre, p. 204
    • Subjects:Children's plays, English.
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Chron.--1876-1917.
    • Genre/Form:Drama.
      Plays.
      Recreations.
      Toy theaters.
      Juvenile works.
      Lithographs--1876-1917.
    • Also listed under:Pollock, Benjamin, 1856-1937, publisher.
      Green, J. K. (John Kilby), 1790-1860.
      Redington, J. (John), 1819-1876.
      Skeffington, Lumley St. George, Sir, 1771-1850. Sleeping beauty.
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