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Shadow puppetry songs: Captain Heitz Drawing and score

Jacques Théodore Saconney1897

École Polytechnique

École Polytechnique
Palaiseau, France

The shadow puppetry songs notebooks are the only mementos of performances—puppet shadows on a white sheet in an amphitheater wrapped in darkness—given at the École Polytechnique. Each caricatured shadow is accompanied by a song, a poem, or a speech that is often mocking or irreverent.

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  • Title: Shadow puppetry songs: Captain Heitz Drawing and score
  • Creator: Jacques Théodore Saconney
  • Date Created: 1897
  • Physical Dimensions: 29.0 x 15.5 cm
  • Subject Keywords: satirical cartoons, Ecole polytechnique
  • Type: Document
  • Rights: École polytechnique
  • Medium: lithography
École Polytechnique

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