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[DANCING DOG] Alcazar D’Été – DansE Serpentine. Paris: Ch. Levy, ca. 1895. One-sheet color lithograph advertising one of many Loie Fuller-inspired trained canine who apparently balanced atop a large ball while wearing a blonde wig and diaphanous costume, all the while pirouetting in the style of the famed American dancer as stage lights played upon the fabric, changing its colors all the while. 48 1/4 x 34 3/8”. Contemporary tax stamp; chipped and with closed tears and small losses. Linen backed. B. See Jay’s Journal of Anomalies, p. 7. This poster advertises one of many trained dog acts that not only imitated Fuller’s fantastically popular and inventive dances, but a canine that capitalized on the original hound imitator of Ms. Fuller, “The Inimitable Dick,” a black poodle so well trained that it could present nearly all of Fuller’s specialties in his own style with astonishing precision.