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Elizabeth & Collins - Knife Throwing On Wire
PHOTOGRAPHS
photograph (b+w)
Elizabeth & Collins; Landseer
Europe: United Kingdom
1950s
photographic paper; wood; glass
frame: 216 mm x 266 mm; main photograph: 200 mm x 250 mm; smaller photograph: 88 mm x 139 mm; twin portrait photograph: 163 mm x 119 mm
2009.439
PHOTOGRAPHS
photograph (b+w)
Elizabeth & Collins; Landseer
Europe: United Kingdom
1950s
photographic paper; wood; glass
frame: 216 mm x 266 mm; main photograph: 200 mm x 250 mm; smaller photograph: 88 mm x 139 mm; twin portrait photograph: 163 mm x 119 mm
Black and white theatrical promotional photograph of a knife throwing ac,. the main photograph showing a man on a tighrope throwing knives at his female partner on a revolving turntable, the picture autographed and with a handwritten message to the man's optician, H. I. Green, requesting that he keep looking after his sight. In a glazed wooden frame, together with a further black and white postcard with cardboard backing, fixed to the upper frame and reproducing a smaller version of the main photograph plus a a twin portrait photograph. Also a separate twin portrait studio photograph by Landseer, with both partners wearing cowboy hats.
2009.439
Gift of Mr Harry Green FCOptom, 2009