The Albino Family Circa 1860
Stock No
TSFS1564
2016
- £795.00
- €961 Euro
- $1,005 US Dollar
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Item Description
Currier and Ives hand coloured lithograph print of The Albino Family circa 1860
“They have pure white skin, silken white hair and pink eyes,Rudolf Lucasie, Wife and Child
who have recently arrived from Hamburg in the Steamer Hummonia. NOW EXHIBITING AT BARNUM'S MUSEUM NEW YORK.”
The Albino Lucasie family were European (the name is French), but P.T. Barnum, who discovered them at the 1857 Amsterdam fair, gave out that they were “Negroes from Madagascar” and claimed that their pink eyes remained staring even as they slept. He brought them to New York to work at his American Museum that same year. Currier and Ives did another portrait of them also, “The Wonderful Eliophobus Family,” a whimsical name meaning “fear of the sun”. In addition to Barnum’s shows, the Lucasies also performed with W. W. Coles and the Lemon Bros., for a total of 40 years. When Antoinette died, Rudolph continued performing in vaudeville as an albino violinist. He died in Kansas City in 1909.
In what appears to be its original period oak and gilt slip frame, age related discolouration and soiling to the print.
49.5/42/4cm
Item Info
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Seller Location
Norfolk, England
Period
19th Century
Item Location
United Kingdom
Seller Location
Norfolk, England
Item Location
United Kingdom
Seller Contact No
+44 (0)797 2775824
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