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  • Conjurers' tricks and equipment. Engraving by Andrew Bell.
  • Conjurers' tricks and equipment. Engraving by Andrew Bell.
  • Conjurers' tricks and equipment. Coloured engraving by J. Lodge.
  • Conjurers' tricks and equipment. Coloured engraving by J. Lodge.
  • A clothed man and mule perform various tricks involving clothing, a hand-bell, bottle, chair and table. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • 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.
  • John Tricker Conquest. Lithograph by M. Gauci after R. W. Warren.
  • A man in an acrobat's outfit teaches a dog a trick while another dog looks on. Colour line block after C. MacIver Grierson.
  • A performance by the "three-headed nightingale" (supposedly a woman with three heads), seen from the side, revealing the trick whereby the appearance of three-headedness was achieved. Reproduction of wood engraving by E.A. Tilly.
  • A doctor being tricked into drinking his own medicine. Engraving, 1784.
  • A devil (in human guise) deceiving and tricking an itinerant medicine vendor who proclaims to cure all ailments. Line engraving by S. Nicholls.
  • Tom Ruby being tricked by six friends into thinking he is suffering from the 'sweating sickness', thereby missing his feast. Coloured line engraving, 1799, after Nixon (?).
  • Phrenological propensities: language, ideality, wit, imitation and approbation, comparison; illustrated by foul-mouthed fishwives, a man imagining ghosts, a woman tricked in a churchyard, Mathews mimicking a phrenologist's lecture, a tall thin man passing a short fat woman. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1826, after himself.
  • Magic through the ages : oriental magic / presented by Rupert Howard.
  • Magic through the ages : oriental magic / presented by Rupert Howard.
  • Magic through the ages : oriental magic / presented by Rupert Howard.
  • Magic through the ages : oriental magic / presented by Rupert Howard.
  • Magic through the ages : oriental magic / presented by Rupert Howard.
  • Magic through the ages : oriental magic / presented by Rupert Howard.
  • Floram Marchand, a man who regurgitated water transformed into several colours and into separate vessels. Line engraving.
  • Floram Marchand, a man who regurgitated water transformed into several colours and into separate vessels. Reproduction of a stipple engraving.
  • The deceptive arts used by Floram Marchand to transform water into other liquids. Manuscript, ca. 1858, after a pamphlet by T. Peedle and T. Cozbie, 1650.
  • Biagio di Manfrè, who regurgitated water transformed into other liquids, aged 72. Engraving after W. Hollar.
  • Biagio di Manfrè, who regurgitated water transformed into other liquids, aged 72. Etching by W. Hollar.
  • Krishna sitting in a tree above water with the gopis' clothes, while the naked gopis plead for their garments. Chromolithograph.
  • Krishna spilling the milk maids pots. Chromolithograph.
  • Krishna, playing the flute, seated in a tree with the milkmaids' clothes, while they, naked and in water gather around the tree begging for their clothes. Chromolithograph.
  • Krishna seated in a tree above a river with the gopis' clothes and making the gopis plead for their garments. Chromolithograph.
  • Note on a portrait of Floram Marchand the water spouter. Manuscript.
  • Krishna sitting in a tree with all the gopis clothes while they naked in the water, beg for their garments. Chromolithograph after Ravi Varma.