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Exhibitions

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: NFCA use as an entertainment genre not a museum exhibition

Found in 265 Collections and/or Records:

Venus Rising from the Sea Handbill, c1846

 Item — Box John Barmwell Taylor Box 1: Series 178T1
Reference code: 178T1.27
Scope and Contents

Venus Rising from the Sea, at Hall of Rome, Windmill Street, Haymarket. 'New female model who will personate Venus Rising from the sea'. Printed by J.W. Peel’s Steam Press, 74, New Cut, Lambeth, opposite the Victoria Theatre.

Dates: c1846

West London and Earl’s Court Handbills, 1831 - 1889

 Sub-Series — Box John Barmwell Taylor Box 1: Series 178T1
Reference code: 178T1.158-162
Scope and Contents

Handbills for travelling shows, exhibitions and performances at West London and Earl’s Court.

Dates: 1831 - 1889

Wonderful Mechanism, The Exeter Clock Handbill, c1825

 Item — Box John Barmwell Taylor Box 1: Series 178T1
Reference code: 178T1.53
Scope and Contents

Wonderful Mechanism, The Exeter Clock at Cosmorama Rooms. 'Most perfect piece of mechanism in the world'. Weighing half ton, 10ft High and 5 ft Wide.Printed by E. and J. Thomas, Printers, Exeter Street, Strand.

Dates: c1825

Wonders Will Never Cease Handbill, 1819 - 1820

 Item — Box John Barmwell Taylor Box 2: Series 178T1
Reference code: 178T1.256
Scope and Contents

The English Giant, Smallest Man in the World and The English Giantess. Shown around the UK in a travelling Pavilion “an opportunity...of seeing a gratifying contrast between a dwarf and giants” a giant, small man and a giantess who were exhibited around the UK. Printed by C. Pick, Feasegate, York.

Dates: 1819 - 1820

Works in Sculpture Handbill, 1831

 Item — Box John Barmwell Taylor Box 1: Series 178T1
Reference code: 178T1.131
Scope and Contents

Mr Laurence Macdonald at 801 and 802 Pall Mall. Group of sculptures/busts.

Dates: 1831