



SIMSALABIM
🎩 Magicians produce something from nothing—a rabbit from an empty hat, a fan of cards from thin air, a shower of coins from an empty bucket, a dove from a pan, or the magician himself or herself, appearing in a puff of smoke on an empty stage—all of these effects are productions.
I hardly can imagine hatless wizards, they all – up to Dumbledore, Merlin and Gandalf – they all need a hat. And who really knows whether The Sorting Hat in Hogwarts is not able to conjure himself.
The model for the look of a ‘typical’ magician—a man with wavy hair, a top hat, a goatee, and a tailcoat—was the French magician Alexander Herrmann (1844 – 1896).
🎨 28 x 29 mm watercolor miniature.



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