Large sailboat marked C10 shadow puppet

Conservation assessment: LIMIT HANDLING; Very difficult to move.

Dramatic Museum Realia

Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University

DM number: P10.30

Box: 19

France

Gift of Milton Smith and John Mulholland (given by Brander Matthews, who purchased the set from De Vere in Paris, 1920s)

"Marionettes in Museums of the United States," in Puppetry, a Yearbook of Puppets and Marionettes. Edited by Paul McPharlin, 23-28. Detroit: The Inland Press, 1930.; "Set of Puppets Acquired in Paris, 1867, by Brander Matthews when he was sixteen" (image), in Puppetry, a Yearbook of Puppets and Marionettes, edited by Paul McPharlin, 54. Detroit: The Inland Press, 1930.; Spaulding, Jean, "Masks and Marionettes," Institute Magazine Dec. 1929: 12-13, 28-29.; Bell, John. "Puppets and 'The Iconography of Drama': The Brander Matthews Collection at Columbia University." in American Puppetry. Edited by Phyllis T. Dircks, 105-117. New York: McFarland and Company, 2004.

Shadow puppets

wood, metal

16"