A young tightrope walker balances herself as she walks across the wire high above a crowd a fashionable dressed crowd of men, women, and children in a large field surrounded by trees. A fireworks display brightens the sky as the sun sets behind the t...
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Published May 18, 1822, by Thos. Kelly, 27 Paternoster Row
"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 g...
"Fox, as a quack doctor, addresses a mob from the front of a platform which rests upon five beer-barrels inscribed 'Whitbreads entire' (cf. BMSat 8638). Four other mountebanks are performing. Fox wears the full wig and old-fashioned laced coat and wai...
Alternative Title:
Palace yard pranks
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Published No. 20, 1795, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816, Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, and Lauderdale, James Maitland, Earl of, 1759-1839
Subject (Topic):
Medicine shows, Quacks & quackery, Politicians, Acrobats, Aerialists, Clowns, Money, Barrels, and Spectators
Copy of a theatre ticket: a stage scene with six performers, a dog and a cat, and in the background two tightrope walkers accompanied by an ape; within a frame, a satyr on either side; a copy of a forgery purporting to be an admission ticket for a per...
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publisher not identified
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Actors, Actresses, Aerialists, Cats, Dogs, Satyrs (Greek mythology) in art, Theatrical productions, Tickets, and Ephemera
Copy of a theatre ticket: a stage scene with six performers, a dog and a cat, and in the background two tightrope walkers accompanied by an ape; within a frame, a satyr on either side; a copy of a forgery purporting to be an admission ticket for a per...
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Title from caption at top of image.
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publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Actors, Actresses, Aerialists, Cats, Dogs, Satyrs (Greek mythology) in art, and Theatrical productions
Copy of a theatre ticket: a stage scene with six performers, a dog and a cat, and in the background two tightrope walkers accompanied by an ape; within a frame, a satyr on either side; a copy of a forgery purporting to be an admission ticket for a per...
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Title from caption at top of image.
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publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Actors, Actresses, Aerialists, Cats, Dogs, Satyrs (Greek mythology) in art, and Theatrical productions
Copy of a theatre ticket: a stage scene with six performers, a dog and a cat, and in the background two tightrope walkers accompanied by an ape; within a frame, a satyr on either side; a copy of a forgery purporting to be an admission ticket for a per...
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Title from caption at top of image.
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publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Actors, Actresses, Aerialists, Cats, Dogs, Satyrs (Greek mythology) in art, and Theatrical productions
