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Handbill announcing A lion, lionesses, tigers, etc.

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[Handbill of Merchant's Hall, [1739], announcing A lion, lionesses, tigers, etc. ]
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Charles Benjamin Incledon, 1763-1826 [performer]
Author
Merchant's Hall [author]
Title
[Handbill of Merchant's Hall, [1739], announcing A lion, lionesses, tigers, etc. ]
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English: Handbill of Merchant's Hall, [1739], announcing A lion, lionesses, tigers, etc.; "with several other rarities, too tedious to mention"; 1739 (manuscript); Lion; Two large lionesses, or she-lions; Large he-tiger; One large she-tiger; Beautiful, noble panther; Large, wonderful, surprizing hyena; Large leopard; Large man tyger or Mounton Monster from Africa; [Handbill of Merchant's Hall, [1739], announcing A lion, lionesses, tigers, etc. ]
Italiano: Manifesto di Charles Benjamin Incledon del 1739 che pubblicizza varie specie di feliformi messi in mostra: un leone della Mesopotamia dai dintorni di Bassora, un leone del Capo, una tigre dalle Indie Orientali, una pantera da Buenos Aires, una Hyaena hyaena dall'Africa occidentale e un leopardo dalla Turchia, oltre a una «tigre-uomo» dall'Africa. Il manifesto afferma che la «hyaena» può imitare la voce umana per attirare gli uomini.
Date 1739
date QS:P571,+1739-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions single sheet; 171 x 121 mm
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Animals on Show 2 (5)
Inscriptions Advertisement to the quality gentry and others, that there is come to this city, and is to be seen any hour of the day at Merchant's-Hall in Poss-gate, the largest collection of living wild creatures, and the greatest rarities ever shown, or probably ever will be in Europe
Notes Allegro identifier: 20030512/15:57:15$hm .
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