11.
- Published / Created:
- [June 1753]
- Call Number:
- 753.06.00.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "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
- Description:
- Title engraved below image., With two columns of letterpress below plate mark., and "Price 6d."
- Publisher:
- Fenwick Bull
- Subject (Name):
- Macdonald, Duncan, active 1753
- Subject (Topic):
- Acrobats, Scotish, Aerialists, and Jugglers
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Duncan MacDonald, of the shire of Caithness Gent. the celebrated Scotish equilibrist [graphic]
