The Ricky Jay Collection Part II
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Lot 226
[PEEP SHOW] O Rare Show. London: I. Smith, ca. 1690. Mezzot...
Estimate: $1,000 - $2,000
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[PEEP SHOW] O RARE SHOW. London: I. Smith, ca. 1690. Mezzotint after Egbert van Heemskerck II depicting an exhibitor, widely believed to be the street performer and balladeer James Laroche (fl. 696 ? 1713), with his boxed peep show resting on a table and presenting it to a group of six gathered children. Margins cropped close to 121/8 ? 8?". Sold together with two satirical seventeenth-century letterpress broadsides regarding Raree Shows, the first advertising ?A Strange Monster,? with a lengthy description of the sideshow-like exhibition of an animal that ?looks as fierce as a tiger, but has scarce the courage of a mouse.? [London]: R. Janeway, 1689. 12? ? 7"; the other for a ?Rary-Show lately brought from the flaming isle of Moderation, all Alive.? [London?], ca. 1710. 14? ? 8?" with margins unevenly trimmed.
