[SWORD SWALLOWERS]?TWO WATERCOLORS OF CHINESE SWORD SWALLOWERS AND ACROBATS.?Late 18th century [?]. Two delicately-rendered images of fairground performers in China, the smaller picturing a man, stripped to the waist, swallowing a sword, with two musicians and a diablo juggler also in the scene, and an acrobat?s ladder behind them; the larger image on thin paper picturing a sword swallower in action with his trunk of props behind him (and a set of Cups and Balls on the ground before the box). The larger 13 ? 12", unevenly cut from a larger sheet, the smaller mounted to stiff card. The larger used as an illustration in?Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women, at page 276.