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  • Men and women are sitting around a table as a bard entertains them. Etching by R. Pranker after H. Gravelot.
  • A Chinese entertainer spinning hats in the air with the assistance of a girl. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • Chinese sword-swallower and entertainer swinging a rope with cast metal weights attached to it. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • Apparitions; or, the mystery of ghosts, hobgoblins, and haunted houses, developed. Being a collection of entertaining stories, founded on fact ... / [Joseph Taylor].
  • A street entertainer makes two monkeys on a lead, dance to music as part of an act. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Interior of Iwakame House, Yokohama Minatosaki licensed pleasure district: Western visitors are shown being entertained in a back room. Colour woodcut by Yoshikazu, 1860.
  • A street entertainer makes two sloth bears on a lead, dance to music as part of an act. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.
  • Street entertainers in Nottingham: James Burne, called Shelford Tommy, a ventriloquist (left) and Charley, a man playing a shawm (right). Etching with aquatint, 1797.
  • A chicken family in traditional Japanese dress entertain a rabbit in western dress: new year ornaments hang from the top left. Colour woodcut, 1870s.
  • Nancy Nevinson, actress, 'Will entertain" : with Betty Lawrence at the piano at London Lighthouse on Sunday December 15th at 7.30 pm' / London Lighthouse.
  • Nancy Nevinson, actress, 'Will entertain" : with Betty Lawrence at the piano at London Lighthouse on Sunday December 15th at 7.30 pm' / London Lighthouse.
  • A group of itinerant perfomers on stage at a market, attempting to sell some medicines as well as entertain. Engraving by F.A. David after K. Dujardin.
  • Two ladies, seated, with a child between them, being entertained by a magician who performs tricks with cups and balls. Etching by R. Rhodon after P. Mercier, 1882.
  • Inside the fox's abode, the old fox is stuffing a hare's head into a bag while the female fox is entertaining the young. Etching by A. Fox after J. Wolf.
  • Krishna (?) sitting on a swing with two women, as two maidservants fan them while others get refreshments and play music to entertain them. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • A man sits drinking at a table and is entertained by a fiddler as a woman holds his music open. Etching by D. Deuchar, 18th century, after A. van Ostade.
  • An essay on electricity. Explaining the principles of that useful science : and describing the instruments, contrived either to illustrate the theory, or render the practice of entertaining / by George Adams.
  • An essay on electricity. Explaining the principles of that useful science : and describing the instruments, contrived either to illustrate the theory, or render the practice of entertaining / by George Adams.
  • Sir Harry Lauder, the Scottish entertainer, at a prosthesis stand at a Daily Mail exhibition, Olympia, 1921: one man with an arm prosthesis lights his pipe, a second demonstrates the equipment. Photograph, 1921.
  • A Chinese puppeteer standing on a stool, with a miniature stage balanced above him, body screened, except for feet, entertaining a boy in the street. Coloured stipple engraving by Dadley after Pu-Qua.
  • A soldier plays a drum as a man with a chained bear with its arms held back by an umbrella is making it dance to entertain the crowd. Lithograph by Benjamin Roubaud, 1833.
  • Cow-pock inoculation : The following facts are laid before the public for the encouragement of those, who entertain any doubt respecting the efficacy and success of vaccine inoculation ... / [John Theodore Archibald Reed].
  • A man is horrified at the high cost of a meal in a tavern while the two women whom he has entertained enjoy his discomfort. Engraving by S. Sangster, 1851, after A.L. Egg.
  • Cow-pock inoculation : The following facts are laid before the public for the encouragement of those, who entertain any doubt respecting the efficacy and success of vaccine inoculation ... / [John Theodore Archibald Reed].
  • Cow-pock inoculation : The following facts are laid before the public for the encouragement of those, who entertain any doubt respecting the efficacy and success of vaccine inoculation ... / [John Theodore Archibald Reed].
  • The dance of death: Death entertains a crowd in front of a tavern by showing that a crown weighs as much or as little as a pipe. Woodcut by Schmidt after Alfred Rethel, 1848.
  • Cow-pock inoculation : The following facts are laid before the public for the encouragement of those, who entertain any doubt respecting the efficacy and success of vaccine inoculation ... / [John Theodore Archibald Reed].
  • Musicians play their instruments as a dancer entertains a crowd of people gathered under an awning and on the steps of a large building. Etching by St. Aubin et de Laungy after J.B. Le Prince.
  • Rational recreations, in which the principles of numbers and natural philosophy are clearly and copiously elucidated by a series of easy, entertaining, interesting experiments. Among which are all those commonly performed with the cards / By W. Hooper.
  • The sportsman's cyclopaedia; comprising a complete elucidation of the science and practice of hunting, shooting, coursing, racing, fishing, hawking, cockfighting, and other sports and pastimes of Great Britain, interspersed with entertaining and illustrative anecdotes / by T.B. Johnson.