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  • Important notice : one fact is worth twenty arguments, and a fact is that the most pleasing and remarkable exhibition in the known world is now in this town... : to be seen alive, a child with one side perfect while the other side of him is double jointed and a skeleton... also the world's wonder, the female Baby Samson.
  • A performer wrestling with a trained tiger. Watercolour drawing.
  • Christian Müller, a circus performer. Line engraving.
  • Important notice : one fact is worth twenty arguments, and a fact is that the most pleasing and remarkable exhibition in the known world is now in this town... : to be seen alive, a child with one side perfect while the other side of him is double jointed and a skeleton... also the world's wonder, the female Baby Samson.
  • A tightrope walker above a clown. Engraving after M. Laroon, 1688.
  • Two boys performing as strongmen. Reproduction of a photograph.
  • Three Indian circus performers. Gouache drawing.