Exhibitions of models, sculptures and workmanship.- During the [Peckham] Fair the most Magnificent Piece of Workmanship in all Europe, '...titled The Realms of Enchantment; Or, the Temple of Celestial Brilliancy, being an exact Representation of the Superb Triumphal Arch, erected for the Entry of Peter the Great, Czar of Russia...', letterpress handbill, inscribed in ink Aug. 23rd 1792, 125 x 180 mm (4 3/4 x 7 1/8 in), unframed, [1792]; together with seven further letterpress handbills, including one 'By Mr. Cohen, a Native of Berlin./ The Figure of a Woman carv'd in Ivory', a 'moving spectacle...the Whole of the Action between then English and French Fleets at the Battle of the Nile', 'Model of Lincoln Cathedral...made from one million eight hundred old bottle corks', a 'Raffle of the incomparable model of one of the largest theatres in Paris', an exhibition handbill for the 'Cork Models, [at] the British Model Gallery', and two others similar, letterpress handbills, various sizes, all unframed, 19th century (8)
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