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1852-09-25
Prints: Boston, Ma.: Washington St.
GUSN-198440
This engraving shows a detailed scene of the Professor's magic show. His small son and assistant stands nearby while the Professor performs his famous bottle trick. "Brandy, rum, gin, whisky and wines, flow from it in streams. We could understand how a bottle could be constructed to give the different liquids but we are at a loss to know the quantity. A gallon is poured from a common quart bottle."
magicians (illusionists)
bottles
assistants
performances (entertainment events)
theaters (buildings)
line engravings (prints)
prints (visual works)
Prints and Engravings Collection Number PR266
1 news line engraving
GC002
Prints and engravings collection, 1830s-1920s
1922-02-04
GC002.01.MA.3550.025
Gift
15 x 10 (HxW)(inches)
Gift of L.W. Jenkins, 1922
Boston (Suffolk county, Massachusetts)
Possibly Rosenberg, Charles G. (Delineator)
Leslie, Frank, 1821-1880 (Engraver)
Gleason's Pictorial (Publisher)
line engravings (prints)
prints (visual works)
Washington Street (Boston, Mass.)
fair
Item
Prints: Boston, Ma.: Washington St.
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