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Concept

Ventriloquists

Images

  • Account of George Romondo.
  • A ventriloquist in drag, known as "Thora ?". Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Street entertainers in Nottingham: James Burne, called Shelford Tommy, a ventriloquist (left) and Charley, a man playing a shawm (right). Etching with aquatint, 1797.
  • Racial types and people with physical abnormalities exhibited at S. Watson's American Museum of Living Curiosities. Colour lithograph.
  • A ventriloquist in drag, known as "Thora ?". Photographic postcard, 191-.
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Catalogue

    • Pictures
    • Online

    Street entertainers in Nottingham: James Burne, called Shelford Tommy, a ventriloquist (left) and Charley, a man playing a shawm (right). Etching with aquatint, 1797.

    | Date: [1797] | Reference: 32455i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A ventriloquist in drag, known as "Thora ?". Photographic postcard, 191-.

    | Date: [between 1910 and 1919?] | Reference: 2044823i
    Part of: The James Gardiner Collection.
    • Pictures

    Racial types and people with physical abnormalities exhibited at S. Watson's American Museum of Living Curiosities. Colour lithograph.

    | Date: [1885?]) | Reference: 38989i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A group of entertainers parading: the monstrous craws, a ventriloquist, a learned pig and two mesmerists. Etching, 178.

    | Reference: 3872i
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Account of George Romondo.

    | Date: [between 1820 and 1821?]
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