Rubini, Beheading a Lady at the Egyptian Hall
Rubini, Beheading a Lady at the Egyptian Hall
Record No
323095
Title
Rubini, Beheading a Lady at the Egyptian Hall
Description
Signor Rubini, real name Philip Prentice Anderson (1844-1920), was the son of a Scottish magician. He worked on his father's shows before going solo in 1867. The beheading illusion could be sensational entertainment but one observer thought Rubini's casual style meant 'it would be better to omit the trick than to pretend to cut off a woman's head as coolly as he would carve a fowl'. Anderson later became a pioneer of moving pictures.
Date of execution
1867
Section
London Metropolitan Archives
Collection
Entertainments Scrapbook
Publisher
Last, J.W.
Notes
From the Entertainments Scrapbook. This collection was wrongly identified previously as part of the Granger Collection.
Medium
ink
Support
paper
Picture type
advertisement
Catalogue No
SC_GL_ENT_001-049 page 41
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