- Title
- Grimaldi's Tandem (painting)
- Resource Type
- still image
- Description
- From the pantomime Harlequin and Padmanaba, or, The Golden Fish produced at Covent Garden in 1811. The cart made up of a cradle, four cheeses and a fender and drawn by dogs burlesques the notoriusly ostentatious carriage owned by Robert `Romeo' Coates. Although Joseph Grimaldi was the most famous Clown of his day, the star of this pantomime was Chuny, the first elephant on the London stage.
- Subject
- Harlequin and Padmanaba; The Golden Fish; 1811; Robert `Romeo' Coates; Chuny; painting; theatre; Michael R. Booth Theatre Collection
- Identifier
- uon:3056
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/32493
- Language
- eng
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