Performing Arts
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# 47479
BELL, Robert et al.
Ballets russes : the art of costume
Canberra : National Gallery of Australia, 2010. Quarto, illustrated cards in illustrated dustjacket, pp. 264, illustrated. ‘Published in conjunction with a major exhibition of the National Gallery of Australia’s renowned collection of costumes from the Ballets Russes. Integrating design, music and dance and encouraging the artistic experimentation and the collaboration of artists, choreographers and composers, …
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# 31046
SHMITH, Athol (1914-1990)
The Pioneer
[1935]. Chloro-bromide print on heavy stock, 380 x 310 mm. Artist’s label verso: Athol L. Shmith, F.R.S.A., A.R.P.S., Modern Photography. The Warwick, / 75a Fitzroy Street / St. Kilda S2, / Melbourne. / Windsor 7141, with typed details Title: THE PIONEER / Process: CHLORO-BROMIDE. / Details: Studio Camera, S.S. Pan Film; Cooke Tele Lens, Vitava paper. …
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![Untitled. [Man playing a vibraphone]](https://dsfb-wp.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/app/uploads/2021/06/25121900/2021_DSFB_4122-300x300.jpg)
# 31045
SHMITH, Athol (1914-1990)
Untitled. [Man playing a vibraphone]
[Melbourne, circa 1935]. Chloro-bromide print on heavy stock, 380 x 305 mm. No label or inscription to verso. Condition: mild corner wear (top left corner with tiny tear), else fine. Note: Athol Shmith was himself an accomplished vibraphonist, and if not for his early success as a photographer would have pursued a career as a …
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![[PLAYBILL] [April 7, 1883]. Amateur Theatricals, St. George's Hall, Perth. Uncle's Will ... A Husband to Order.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/05/2025_DSFB_2944-300x300.jpg)
# 47249
[THESPIAN DRAMATIC COMPANY?] (Perth)
[PLAYBILL] [April 7, 1883]. Amateur Theatricals, St. George’s Hall, Perth. Uncle’s Will … A Husband to Order.
Perth, WA : [s.n.], 1883. Broadsheet, 210 x 130 mm, lithograph-printed in navy on light blue linen paper, on the first side of a bifolium (the other three sides blank); some silverfishing along the fold and at bottom edges, otherwise good condition. Perth playbill listing the casts of two plays. Performers include Mrs. Wilkinson, Mr. …
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![[PLAYBILL] [St. George's Hall, Perth, 4 November 1881] Programme. The original Serio Comic Drama in two Acts, entitled Milky White, by H. T. Craven Esq.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/05/2025_DSFB_2942-300x300.jpg)
# 47250
[FREMANTLE AMATEUR DRAMATIC CLUB]
[PLAYBILL] [St. George’s Hall, Perth, 4 November 1881] Programme. The original Serio Comic Drama in two Acts, entitled Milky White, by H. T. Craven Esq.
[Perth, WA : s.n., 1881]. Broadsheet, 210 x 130 mm, lithograph-printed recto only in black on mauve paper; horizontal fold, some paper adhesions at left edge, otherwise good condition. Perth playbill listing full cast of a production by the Fremantle Amateur Dramatic Club. Performers include Mr. A. G. Rosser, Mr. W. H. Turner, Mr. F. …
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![[PLAYBILL] Entertainment by The Thespians. Perth, W.A., July 31, 1877. In aid of the Dorcas Society. ... A Thumping Legacy ... Cool as a Cucumber.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/05/2025_DSFB_2946-300x300.jpg)
# 47248
THESPIAN DRAMATIC COMPANY (Perth)
[PLAYBILL] Entertainment by The Thespians. Perth, W.A., July 31, 1877. In aid of the Dorcas Society. … A Thumping Legacy … Cool as a Cucumber.
Perth, WA : [s.n.], 1877. Broadsheet, 260 x 170 mm (horizontal fold), lithograph-printed recto only in black on white paper; tipped onto a nineteenth-century backing sheet, in very good condition. Perth playbill listing the casts of two theatrical pieces. Performers include Mr. O. Burt, Mr. H. C. Prinsep, Mr. H. Ashton, Mr. J. C. H. …
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![[PLAYBILL] Private Theatricals given by H. E. The Governor & Mrs. Robinson. Perth, W.A., December 15, 1876. Dearest Mamma ... Whitebait at Greenwich.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/05/2025_DSFB_2940-300x300.jpg)
# 47251
[ROBINSON, William Cleaver Francis, Sir]
[PLAYBILL] Private Theatricals given by H. E. The Governor & Mrs. Robinson. Perth, W.A., December 15, 1876. Dearest Mamma … Whitebait at Greenwich.
[Perth, WA : s.n., 1876]. Broadsheet, 215 x 140 mm, lithograph-printed recto in blue on buff paper, text set within decorative border with royal coat of arms at head; laid down on a section of a nineteenth-century album leaf, mild toning. Perth playbill listing the casts of two theatrical pieces. Performers include Mr. H. C. Princep, …
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![[PLAYBILL] Thespian Dramatic Company. St. George's Hall, Perth. First Winter Performance, Wednesday & Thursday 21st & 22nd July 1880 at 8 p.m. "The Chimney Corner. A thrilling domestic drama in two acts ... A Phenomenon in a Smock Frock. A farce in one act.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/05/2025_DSFB_2682-300x300.jpg)
# 47246
THESPIAN DRAMATIC COMPANY (Perth)
[PLAYBILL] Thespian Dramatic Company. St. George’s Hall, Perth. First Winter Performance, Wednesday & Thursday 21st & 22nd July 1880 at 8 p.m. “The Chimney Corner. A thrilling domestic drama in two acts … A Phenomenon in a Smock Frock. A farce in one act.
[Perth, WA : s.n.], 1880. Broadsheet, 330 x 205 mm (horizontal fold), lithograph-printed in violet on cheap white paper; illustrated border (which advertises a forthcoming performance of Boucicault’s play London Assurance); scattered foxing, upper two-thirds glued to nineteenth-century backing sheet; roughening and small tears at edges. Perth playbill listing the casts of two amateur theatrical pieces. Performers …
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![[PLAYBILL] Thespians. St. George's Hall, 8 Sept[embe]r. 1880. Our Wife ... Patient Penelope.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/05/2025_DSFB_2948-300x300.jpg)
# 47247
THESPIAN DRAMATIC COMPANY (Perth)
[PLAYBILL] Thespians. St. George’s Hall, 8 Sept[embe]r. 1880. Our Wife … Patient Penelope.
[Perth, WA : s.n.], 1880. Broadsheet, 210 x 145 mm, lithograph-printed in violet recto only, on cheap white paper, with two vignette illustrations; some light foxing and creasing, else good condition. Perth playbill for two theatrical pieces; the characters in each play are listed in French and Classical Greek, respectively (the names of the performers are …
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![[BOROVANSKY BALLET] Signed photograph of New Zealand-born dancer Jonet Wilkie. Melbourne, November 1946.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/05/2025_DSFB_2620-300x300.jpg)
# 47149
STEELE PHOTOGRAHY LTD. (Auckland)
[BOROVANSKY BALLET] Signed photograph of New Zealand-born dancer Jonet Wilkie. Melbourne, November 1946.
Gelatin silver print, 150 x 100 mm, with the blind stamp of ‘Steele, Auckland’ lower right, and inscribed in pen ‘For Kerry, with best wishes, Jonet Wilkie’; verso with pencilled date of 21/11/46 (the date that the photograph was inscribed for Kerry, a Melbourne ballet fan, during the Borovansky Ballet’s season at His Majesty’s Theatre); some …
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# 28130
MOORE, John Hammond
The young Errol : Flynn before Hollywood
Sydney : Angus and Robertson, 1975. First edition. Octavo, lettered wrappers (paperback), light rubbing to edges, short crease, spine faded, pp. [vi]; 154; 16 pp. black and white photographic plates. The first edition of Moore’s revealing insight into Flynn’s early years, prior to his fame, derived from first hand sources in New Guinea and Australia. …
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![[ROLLING STONES CONTACT SHEET] Charlie Watts and Mick Taylor interviewed by Felix Dennis for London Oz magazine, 1971.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/04/2025_DSFB_2589-300x300.jpg)
# 47093
[Photographer unidentified]
[ROLLING STONES CONTACT SHEET] Charlie Watts and Mick Taylor interviewed by Felix Dennis for London Oz magazine, 1971.
Gelatin silver print, 250 x 200 mm (sheet); inscribed on the verso in blue ballpoint by Oz magazine editor Felix Dennis: ‘F.D. interviews Charlie Watts & Mick Taylor, other members of Rolling Stones, for Oz. 1971?‘; in very good condition. The interview at which these photographs were taken (presumably by an Oz staff photographer – …
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# 46903
BOOMERANG ENTERTAINMENT
Promotional photograph of Aboriginal musician Fred Little, younger brother of renowned Yorta Yorta singer-songwriter Jimmy Little.
Granville, NSW : Boomerang Entertainment Centre, [c.1960]. Black-and-white photograph on glossy paper, 165 x 215 mm, verso with wet stamp of the Boomerang Entertainment Centre, and identifying caption in pen ‘Fred Little’; light creasing and corner wear.
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# 46775
[NOBLE, Timothy, attributed.] [BLONDIN, Charles, 1824-1897]
Farewell of Le Chevalier Blondin.
[Title from caption in the image]. [Melbourne : Timothy Noble, 1874]. Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm; verso without studio imprint, but in pencil are the original owner’s name ‘J. S. Wright’ and his gift inscription ‘For Cousin Jessie’; the print has some foxing at top edge and the front of …
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# 46882
DAVIES & CO.
Studio portrait of the celebrated Irish actor Charles Kean. Melbourne, 1863.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 62 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘Davies & Co., Photographers, 5 Collins St. West (3 Doors from Elizabeth St.), Melbourne’, and a fully contemporary inscription in ink identifying the sitter as ‘Mr. C. Kean’; the print has lost some contrast in the upper section, but …
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# 47333
MARSH, Anne
Performance ritual document
Melboure : Macmillan, 2014. Octavo, illustrated limp card wrappers, illustrated endpapers, pp. 271, extensively illustrated. New copy of an out of print title. Includes works by Deborah Kelly, Julie Rrap, Catherine Bell, Marina Abramovic, Mike Parr, Jill Orr, Peter Kennedy, Fiona McGregor, Brown Council and others. ‘Performance art in Australia emerged in the 1970s and …