The Ricky Jay Collection Part III
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Lot 484
[VENTRILOQUISM]. Five Hand-Colored Engravings of Messr’s Ma...
Estimate: $500 - $1,000
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[VENTRILOQUISM]. Five Hand-Colored Engravings of Messr?s Matthews and Yates. British, 1820s. Well-rendered engravings, some being frontispieces from chapbooks, showing the characters portrayed (and imitated) by this early ventriloquist and pantomimist, and his performing partner, including: Mr. Matthews in the Whole of his Characters in Invitations & the City Barge ? Messrs. Matthew & Yates, In All Their Characters ? [Mr. Matthews in the] Rogueries of Nicholas ? Mr. Yate?s [sic] Portraits & Sketches ? Mr. Yates? Reminiscences. 7 ? x 8 ?? and slightly smaller, with four delicately hand colored. Minor chips and folds, but very good overall.Frederick Henry Yates (1797 ? 1842) met the famous and successful impersonator and ventriloquist Charles Matthews (1776 ? 1835), in 1817. Yates became an actor on Matthews? suggestion and went on to manage London?s famed Adelphi Theatre. The two performed together in the 1820s.
