Europe history: Street entertainers
dancing dogs
[with other animals)
Pipe and tabor players used animals to attract the public:
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…As dancing dogs make oafs and children swarm,
Dress, mien, demeanour all in human form —
As monkeys, reared erect on paws or breech,
Well mimic man in all but laugh and speech —
Or as from street to street queer camel's shown,
From other beasts by pipe and tabor known,…”
The Tribulations of an Uneducated Poet in the 1760s’ by James Woodhouse
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13th/14th century Cambrai, France | |||||||||||||||||||||
1325 Flanders |
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1325 horn and bell, Cologne, Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||
1324-28 dancing monkey, France f.76r | 1350-1400 Burgundy or S. Netherlands f13 copy of 1220-1240 Italian (Sicily) image |
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1500 underside of plate, Holland | 1500 Lubeck, Germany: 'On the broad side of the larger silver knife of a set of daggers there is a minstrel with a one-handed flute and a drum, accompanied by a dancing dog. |
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1500 Flemish | 1505 Bible, France |
1510 part of wood screen in chapel Normandy, France |
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1525-1550 Valenciennes, France | |||||||||||||||||||||
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1822 | 19th century France | ||||||||||||||||||||
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1826, London, 'Plaintiff Bumpkin, and Defendant Ape': description of a court case :Oxford University and City Herald - Saturday 21 January 1826 | |||||||||||||||||||||
1829 Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Volume 27 by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) |
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1831 newspaper report 'Italian Boys' For dancing dogs, four in number, including dresses, spinning wheel, pipe and tabor, &c. 5s. per day." The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction 1831-11-19: Vol 18 Iss 519 |
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1833Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine, Volume 20 | |||||||||||||||||||||
1834 Goose Game Holland | 1834 ‘The Literary Tablet’ 1834-03-15: Vol 2 Iss 25 |
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1840 comment on satire Morning Post - Monday 16 November 1840 |
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1874 trial account for THOMAS GEORGE SELMAN. Breaking Peace; wounding: “the black man goes by the name of "Snipe," he has dancing dogs…on 14th February, near 4 o'clock, Proceedings of the Central Criminal Court, London, 2nd March 1874, t18740302-224 |
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1897 story: dancing monkey entertained in the street: ..." a jackanapes he had seen once at the Stratford fair, which wore a crimson jerkin and a cap. 'Master Skylark' a novel by John Bennett |
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