"A broadside on Duncan Macdonald, a Scottish acrobat; with an etching after a drawing by Louis Philippe Boitard showing Macdonald balancing on a wire, at his feet jack-boots, balancing on his right foot a wheel, a dish, a tray with 15 glasses, and a glass sphere, with his left index finger holding up a chair and a dog, balancing with his nose a sword, a pipe and two eggs, with his right hand playing a French horn and a trumpet, underneath the wire sword blades pointing upwards; with engraved title and inscription, and with letterpress text in two columns, and with a vertical segment of type ornament."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title engraved below image., With two columns of letterpress below plate mark., and "Price 6d."
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Caption title., Date from British Museum online catalogue., Letterpress subscription signed W.H (William Hogarth). Originally published on the verso of the first edition of Puggs Grace., and On page 289 in volume 3.
