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Leicester Square (London, England)

Images

  • [Illustrated ticket to an exhibition of Aztec Lilliputians from Iximaya in central America and the Earthmen or Erdmanniges from under the earth in South Africa. Possibly 1855. Printed in red on white paper].
  • The Aztec Lilliputians and the Earthmen, or Erdmanniges : grand fashionable exhibitions commencing Tuesday, Dec. 26th, to continue for a short time only ... / Queen's Concert Rooms, Hanover Square.
  • John Hunter's residence: ground plan of Hunter's premises at No. 28 Leicester Square in 1792, as drawn in 1832. Photograph by Grove Son and Boulton.
  • John Hunter's residence: ground plan of Hunter's premises at No. 28 Leicester Square in 1792, as drawn in 1832. Photograph by Grove Son and Boulton.
  • [Victorian handbill (May 24th 1852) advertising 21 year old Madame Fortunne of Geneva and her 4 inch long, bushy, black beard, on exhibition at Linwood Gallery, Leicester Square, London. ].
  • [Illustrated 'favour ticket' to an exhibition of Aztec Lilliputians from Iximaya in central America and the Erdmanniges from under the earth in South Africa. Possibly 1855].
  • [Undated handbill (London, 1851?) advertising an appearance by Joseph Gantonio, the young Italian giant, at Saville House, Leicester Square, London].
  • John Hunter's residence: ground plan of Hunter's premises at No. 28 Leicester Square in 1792, as drawn in 1832. Photograph by Grove Son and Boulton.
  • [Undated handbill (printed in Piccadilly by Percival) advertising an exhibition of a 7' 2" Lapland Giantess and her companion at Saville House, Leicester Square, London].
  • Ojibeway and Potawatamie indians : the Walpole islanders at the Panopticon - from a photograph by Claudet.
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Catalogue

    • Pictures

    Leicester Square, Westminster: premises of Hawkes and Son, Musical instrument manufacturers. Photograph by Grove Son and Boulton, 1896.

    Grove Son and Boulton, (Technical and fine art photographers) | Date: [1896] | Reference: 45080i
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    [Undated handbill (printed in Piccadilly by Percival) advertising an exhibition of a 7' 2" Lapland Giantess and her companion at Saville House, Leicester Square, London].

    | Date: date of publication not identified
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    The Aztec Lilliputians and the Earthmen, or Erdmanniges : grand fashionable exhibitions commencing Tuesday, Dec. 26th, to continue for a short time only ... / Queen's Concert Rooms, Hanover Square.

    | Date: [1854?]
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Another Daniel Lambert! : now exhibiting at 6, Leicester Square, Mr. Mansfield, of Debden, Essex, the most wonderful man ever known ... weighing 469lbs.! Circumference, 97 inches!!!.

    | Date: [between 1810 and 1850?]
    • Pictures

    John Hunter's residence: ground plan of Hunter's premises at No. 28 Leicester Square in 1792, as drawn in 1832. Photograph by Grove Son and Boulton.

    | Reference: 560806i
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