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| A Victorian Melodrama Evening, June 1996 |
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A group of standing silhouettes arranged as a "conversation peice". Such commissions were a popular way of patronizing silhouette artists in the nineteenth century, and for the 'star peices' in many collections of silhouettes today. They can be made of a family, a group of friends, or specially commissioned to commemorate a particular event.
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| A Victorian Melodrama Evening, June 1996 |
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The next one is more personal kind of "conversation peice". I cut these forlorn figures at a disastrous balloon festival in the South West of England last summer. It rained all day, and no balloon ever left the ground, and yet these forlorn people waited all day for something to happen!
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| The Somerset Balloon Festival, August 1996 |
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