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TitleScrapbook
Reference codeHPF/5A/1
Datec1700-c1877
Scope and ContentContains cuttings, playbills and flyers regarding performances of conjuring, magic, ventriloquism and a variety of acts at the major theatres around Britain. Pages and items removed from scrapbook and catalogued in the order they were originally presented within it, although some gaps have been found in the sequence. Unumbered material has also been added at the end of the numbered sequence:
1) note on Monsieur Henry, inventor of inflammable air fireworks (c1700)
2-30) series of cuttings for performances by 'The Sieur Comus, with handwritten annotations (1793-1795)
31) cutting regarding a performance by conjurer Khia Khan Kuruse on The Strand, London (30 October 1823)
32) cutting concerning a performance by conjuror Signor Cappelli, with handwritten note on 'The famed young Hussar' (1772)
33) two cuttings concerning a performance of 'Grand and wonderful' experiments' by 'a son of the late Colonel Katterfelto' (c1782)
34-35) six cuttings and handwritten notes regarding Flockton's Theatre, London (1769-1808)
36) cuttings concerning performance by Mr Honeyman, 'Professor of Ventrioquism' (1833) and Monsieur Chalons, conjuror (1821)
37) cuttings regarding a 'trick' conjuror and the performances of a Turk conjuror (1772)
38) cuttings concerning the performances of Mr Connus and Monsieur Cornillot, conjurors (1789-1823)
39-40; 42) cuttings concerning a philosophical exhibition by Signor Pinetti at the Theatre Royal, London (November 1784 - February 1785)
41) cutting regarding a performance by Monsieur Cornillot (September 1822)
43) handwritten note on the picture of the conjuror refused admission to the Royal Academy in 1776 (March 1785)
44-48) handwritten notes and cuttings regarding performances by Mr Jonas, conjuror (1769-1772)
49-52) cuttings regarding displays of Mr Gyngell's mechanical and scientific exhibition (1815-1821)
53) cutting and handwritten notes regarding 'Legerdemain: The Ingenious Cosmopolita' (January - February 1772)
54) cutting regarding a performance by the conjuror Cagliostro (1789)
55) two cuttings concerning 'conjurors' tried for trickery and theft (1803-1828)
56, 59-60) cuttings concerning performances by Mr Ingleby, 'Emperor of all the Conjurors', at the Lyceum, Strand (1808)
57) cuttings regarding performances by the conjuror, Monsieur Val (1803)
61-62) cuttings regarding Chinese and Indian jugglers (1815-1816)
63) cutting regarding performances by Messers Chalons and Davoust (1821)
64-65) cutting regarding a performance by conjuror Madame Cucchiani (1825)
66) cuttings regarding Yeates' trick of 'dexterity of the hand' (1775)
67) cuttings concerning performances by conjurors Mr Falck and Le Sieur Ray (1830)
68) cutting, with illustration showing 'Sleight of hand and the whole art of conjuring' (n.d.)
69) playbill for performance by Mr P.N.Cunningham, with handwritten annotations on reverse (n.d.)
71) playbill for performance by Signor Blitz, Junior at the 'Rotunda' (22 September 1826)
72) playbill for performance by Mr Hoare at Chequers Inn, Walthamstow (18 and 20 November 1828)
73) playbill for performance by Monsieur Benserade Girardelli, Professor of Recreative Philosophy, of mechanical and chemical experiments (1828)
74) playbill for a performance by Monsieur Cornillot of 'Philosophy and chemistry' at the Theatre of Variety, The Strand, London (6 October 1823)
75) playbill for weekly performances by Ingleby Lunar, the 'Highland enchanter' at the Gun Tavern, Shoreditch (n.d.)
76) cutting advertising performance by R.Law, Naturalist, Ventriloquist and Melodist, at the City of London Tavern, Bishopsgate (1836)
77-83) playbills and cuttings for performances by magician Mr Sutton at the Liver Theatre (1836-1838)
85-86) playbill for performances at the New Strand Theatre, London, featuring magician Monsieur Buck (n.d.)
87) cuttings regarding performances by magicians Professor Logrenia and De Linski (1850-1853)
88) playbill for performances at the Theatre Royal, Margate (October 1852)
89) cuttings concerning performances at the Adelaide Gallery (27 July 1835), Theatre Royal, Margate (1770) and the Regent Street Polytechnic (September 1840)
90) cutting regarding a performance at the New Theatre, London (1821) and a flyer for 'Christmas amusements', provided by Mr Williams (n.d.)
91) Playbill for a performance by Mr Alexander at the Olympic Theatre (24 April 1821)
92) flyer for a performance by Signor Farima and the two 'Learned dogs' at the Atheneum Rooms, London (n.d.)
93) playbill for performances at the Adelphi Theatre, London, featuring ventriloquist Monsieur Alexandre (July 1822)
94) cutting and handwritten notes regarding Mr Clench of Barnet (1726)
95-96) playbill for performances at the Royal Surrey Theatre (April 1831 and July 1838)
97) cuttings regarding performances by Michael Boai (1830-1831)
98) playbill for a performance at the New Strand Theatre (28 July 1832)
99) playbill for performances at the Royal Surrey Theatre (10 February 1840)
100) playbill for a performance at the Theatre Royal (13 December 1836)
101) cuttings regarding performances by Signor Frangopulos (24 June 1840) and Mr Love (1834)
102) playbill for performances at the New Strand Theatre (6 July 1840)
103) playbill for performance by Mr Love at the Regent Gallery, London (5 May 1855)
104-120) playbills for performances by ventriloquist Mr Love at the City of London Tavern, Bishopsgate; Grove House, Camberwell; Concert Hall, Peckham; Assembly Rooms, Margate; Regent Gallery, London; Spread Eagle Arms, Epsom; Horns Tavern, Kennington; (1843-1855)
121-124) flyers, playbills and cuttings regarding performances by W.S.Woodin at the Regent Gallery and the Polygraphic Hall, Charing Cross (1856)
125) Order of procession to the grand civil banquet given to King William and Queen Adelaide at the Guildhall, London (9 November 1830)
126) playbill for performances at the Royal Coburg Theatre (March 1828)
127) cuttings regarding performances by ventriloquist and magician Ching Lau Lauro (1838)
128) playbill for performances at Thanet Raneleigh Gardens (n.d.)
129) cutting regarding the marriage of Indian juggler, Vedra Bedra (20 July 1823)
130) flyer for accomodation at The Lion, Newington (n.d.)
133) playbill for performances at the Theatre Royal, Chester (5 December 1817)
134) playbill for performances of 'Impaling a human body to a board with huge knives' (n.d.)
135) playbill and cutting for a performance at the Royal Gardens, Vauxhall (10 July 1825)
136) playbill for performances at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (27 March 1854)
139-140) playbill for performances at the Theatre Royal, Chester (22 March 1821)
141-142) playbill for performances at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (7 February 1849)
143) playbill for perforamnces at the Theatre Royal, Chester, featuring magician Khia Khan Khruse (17 October 1820)
144) playbill for performances at the Adelphi Theatre, Strand (25 February 1825)
145) advert for performances of optical illusions by M.Henry (n.d.)
146) playbill for performances at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (16 February 1849)
147) playbill for 'The Mysterious lady' and for performances at the Royal Adelaide Gallery, London (n.d.)
149) playbill for a lecture on astronomy and the phenomena of the heavens and of the earth by Mr Bartley (5 March 1824)
150) lflyer for 'mind-revealing' performances by James Edwyns at the Opera Theatre, Crystal Palace (n.d.)
151) flyer for the feat of legerdemain, 'The flight of the cage and canary' by Mr DeVere (c1877)
152) flyer for the services of showman, Mystic Clayton (n.d.)
153) small playbill and cutting for performances at the Marionette Theatre, London (1853)
154) ticket for entry to an exhibition of pastcards and novelties (in German) (n.d.)
155) advert for Madame Tussauds and Sons exhibition at Portman Square, London (n.d.)
156) flyer for the exhibition of a giraffe with its Nubian attendant in Liverpool (n.d.)
Unnumbered items:
i) flyer warning visitors to the fair to 'Beware of theives and robbers', published by the Religious Tract Society (1830)
ii) catalogue for an exhibition by Maskelyne and Cooke, Illusionists and Anti-Spiritualists, at the Egyptian Hall (n.d.)
iii) flyer for a performance by 'learned cats' by Signor Cappelli at Bartholomew Fair (1832)
iv) cuttings concerning performances by polyphonist, Mr Love (1836)
v) coloured illustration, 'The fortune teller' by Ackermann (n.d.)
vi) cuttings regarding the Bartholomew Fair, cricket and a prize display by the South London Horticultural Society (1832-1842)
vii) small colour poster, 'Zauberer Kassner' (n.d.)
viii) small advert for the book, 'Die kunst zu Zaubern' by Alexander Adrion (n.d.)
1) note on Monsieur Henry, inventor of inflammable air fireworks (c1700)
2-30) series of cuttings for performances by 'The Sieur Comus, with handwritten annotations (1793-1795)
31) cutting regarding a performance by conjurer Khia Khan Kuruse on The Strand, London (30 October 1823)
32) cutting concerning a performance by conjuror Signor Cappelli, with handwritten note on 'The famed young Hussar' (1772)
33) two cuttings concerning a performance of 'Grand and wonderful' experiments' by 'a son of the late Colonel Katterfelto' (c1782)
34-35) six cuttings and handwritten notes regarding Flockton's Theatre, London (1769-1808)
36) cuttings concerning performance by Mr Honeyman, 'Professor of Ventrioquism' (1833) and Monsieur Chalons, conjuror (1821)
37) cuttings regarding a 'trick' conjuror and the performances of a Turk conjuror (1772)
38) cuttings concerning the performances of Mr Connus and Monsieur Cornillot, conjurors (1789-1823)
39-40; 42) cuttings concerning a philosophical exhibition by Signor Pinetti at the Theatre Royal, London (November 1784 - February 1785)
41) cutting regarding a performance by Monsieur Cornillot (September 1822)
43) handwritten note on the picture of the conjuror refused admission to the Royal Academy in 1776 (March 1785)
44-48) handwritten notes and cuttings regarding performances by Mr Jonas, conjuror (1769-1772)
49-52) cuttings regarding displays of Mr Gyngell's mechanical and scientific exhibition (1815-1821)
53) cutting and handwritten notes regarding 'Legerdemain: The Ingenious Cosmopolita' (January - February 1772)
54) cutting regarding a performance by the conjuror Cagliostro (1789)
55) two cuttings concerning 'conjurors' tried for trickery and theft (1803-1828)
56, 59-60) cuttings concerning performances by Mr Ingleby, 'Emperor of all the Conjurors', at the Lyceum, Strand (1808)
57) cuttings regarding performances by the conjuror, Monsieur Val (1803)
61-62) cuttings regarding Chinese and Indian jugglers (1815-1816)
63) cutting regarding performances by Messers Chalons and Davoust (1821)
64-65) cutting regarding a performance by conjuror Madame Cucchiani (1825)
66) cuttings regarding Yeates' trick of 'dexterity of the hand' (1775)
67) cuttings concerning performances by conjurors Mr Falck and Le Sieur Ray (1830)
68) cutting, with illustration showing 'Sleight of hand and the whole art of conjuring' (n.d.)
69) playbill for performance by Mr P.N.Cunningham, with handwritten annotations on reverse (n.d.)
71) playbill for performance by Signor Blitz, Junior at the 'Rotunda' (22 September 1826)
72) playbill for performance by Mr Hoare at Chequers Inn, Walthamstow (18 and 20 November 1828)
73) playbill for performance by Monsieur Benserade Girardelli, Professor of Recreative Philosophy, of mechanical and chemical experiments (1828)
74) playbill for a performance by Monsieur Cornillot of 'Philosophy and chemistry' at the Theatre of Variety, The Strand, London (6 October 1823)
75) playbill for weekly performances by Ingleby Lunar, the 'Highland enchanter' at the Gun Tavern, Shoreditch (n.d.)
76) cutting advertising performance by R.Law, Naturalist, Ventriloquist and Melodist, at the City of London Tavern, Bishopsgate (1836)
77-83) playbills and cuttings for performances by magician Mr Sutton at the Liver Theatre (1836-1838)
85-86) playbill for performances at the New Strand Theatre, London, featuring magician Monsieur Buck (n.d.)
87) cuttings regarding performances by magicians Professor Logrenia and De Linski (1850-1853)
88) playbill for performances at the Theatre Royal, Margate (October 1852)
89) cuttings concerning performances at the Adelaide Gallery (27 July 1835), Theatre Royal, Margate (1770) and the Regent Street Polytechnic (September 1840)
90) cutting regarding a performance at the New Theatre, London (1821) and a flyer for 'Christmas amusements', provided by Mr Williams (n.d.)
91) Playbill for a performance by Mr Alexander at the Olympic Theatre (24 April 1821)
92) flyer for a performance by Signor Farima and the two 'Learned dogs' at the Atheneum Rooms, London (n.d.)
93) playbill for performances at the Adelphi Theatre, London, featuring ventriloquist Monsieur Alexandre (July 1822)
94) cutting and handwritten notes regarding Mr Clench of Barnet (1726)
95-96) playbill for performances at the Royal Surrey Theatre (April 1831 and July 1838)
97) cuttings regarding performances by Michael Boai (1830-1831)
98) playbill for a performance at the New Strand Theatre (28 July 1832)
99) playbill for performances at the Royal Surrey Theatre (10 February 1840)
100) playbill for a performance at the Theatre Royal (13 December 1836)
101) cuttings regarding performances by Signor Frangopulos (24 June 1840) and Mr Love (1834)
102) playbill for performances at the New Strand Theatre (6 July 1840)
103) playbill for performance by Mr Love at the Regent Gallery, London (5 May 1855)
104-120) playbills for performances by ventriloquist Mr Love at the City of London Tavern, Bishopsgate; Grove House, Camberwell; Concert Hall, Peckham; Assembly Rooms, Margate; Regent Gallery, London; Spread Eagle Arms, Epsom; Horns Tavern, Kennington; (1843-1855)
121-124) flyers, playbills and cuttings regarding performances by W.S.Woodin at the Regent Gallery and the Polygraphic Hall, Charing Cross (1856)
125) Order of procession to the grand civil banquet given to King William and Queen Adelaide at the Guildhall, London (9 November 1830)
126) playbill for performances at the Royal Coburg Theatre (March 1828)
127) cuttings regarding performances by ventriloquist and magician Ching Lau Lauro (1838)
128) playbill for performances at Thanet Raneleigh Gardens (n.d.)
129) cutting regarding the marriage of Indian juggler, Vedra Bedra (20 July 1823)
130) flyer for accomodation at The Lion, Newington (n.d.)
133) playbill for performances at the Theatre Royal, Chester (5 December 1817)
134) playbill for performances of 'Impaling a human body to a board with huge knives' (n.d.)
135) playbill and cutting for a performance at the Royal Gardens, Vauxhall (10 July 1825)
136) playbill for performances at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (27 March 1854)
139-140) playbill for performances at the Theatre Royal, Chester (22 March 1821)
141-142) playbill for performances at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (7 February 1849)
143) playbill for perforamnces at the Theatre Royal, Chester, featuring magician Khia Khan Khruse (17 October 1820)
144) playbill for performances at the Adelphi Theatre, Strand (25 February 1825)
145) advert for performances of optical illusions by M.Henry (n.d.)
146) playbill for performances at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (16 February 1849)
147) playbill for 'The Mysterious lady' and for performances at the Royal Adelaide Gallery, London (n.d.)
149) playbill for a lecture on astronomy and the phenomena of the heavens and of the earth by Mr Bartley (5 March 1824)
150) lflyer for 'mind-revealing' performances by James Edwyns at the Opera Theatre, Crystal Palace (n.d.)
151) flyer for the feat of legerdemain, 'The flight of the cage and canary' by Mr DeVere (c1877)
152) flyer for the services of showman, Mystic Clayton (n.d.)
153) small playbill and cutting for performances at the Marionette Theatre, London (1853)
154) ticket for entry to an exhibition of pastcards and novelties (in German) (n.d.)
155) advert for Madame Tussauds and Sons exhibition at Portman Square, London (n.d.)
156) flyer for the exhibition of a giraffe with its Nubian attendant in Liverpool (n.d.)
Unnumbered items:
i) flyer warning visitors to the fair to 'Beware of theives and robbers', published by the Religious Tract Society (1830)
ii) catalogue for an exhibition by Maskelyne and Cooke, Illusionists and Anti-Spiritualists, at the Egyptian Hall (n.d.)
iii) flyer for a performance by 'learned cats' by Signor Cappelli at Bartholomew Fair (1832)
iv) cuttings concerning performances by polyphonist, Mr Love (1836)
v) coloured illustration, 'The fortune teller' by Ackermann (n.d.)
vi) cuttings regarding the Bartholomew Fair, cricket and a prize display by the South London Horticultural Society (1832-1842)
vii) small colour poster, 'Zauberer Kassner' (n.d.)
viii) small advert for the book, 'Die kunst zu Zaubern' by Alexander Adrion (n.d.)
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