Puppetry & conjuring.- The Fantoccini, From Sadler's Wells. The Widow Flint and Gyngell's Grand Exhibitions...Deceptions By his unparalleled Dexterity of Hand...Orchestra, Consisting of Eight Automaton Figures..., ink manuscript correction and additions "Mr Humphries Night August 7...at Turnham Green the Dwarf Dance by Mr Humphries", few spots, some horizontal creasing, frayed at foot with loss of text, 380 x 180mm., [c.1795] § At Mr. Flockton's Theatre...By the Facetious Mr. Punch...a Play, call'd, The Frolicks of the Evening...Grand Piece of Clock-Work, call'd The Temple of Arts..., laid down on trimmed album leaf with unrelated ink drawings to verso, 238 x 180mm., [c.1770s] § Mr. Gyngell...Assembly Room, New Inn, Sandwich...Deceptions...Original Fantoccini..., small portion of loss affecting few letters, some light staining to extremities, laid down on larger paper, printed label "Preserved by Mr. Rolfe, Upwards of 40 Years,-- Afterwards Presented to this Collection - By Roach Smith, Esq.-" laid down beneath, playbill 425 x 160mm., Canterbury, Cowtan & Colegate, 27th January 1813, printed playbills; and another playbill relating to fantoccini, v.s. (4)
⁂ John Flockton (d. 1794), a puppeteer and general showman, was said to be the mentor of Gyngell, who inherited his show upon Flockton’s death.
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