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unmaskingrobert00houdgoog.pdf | 125 | Ebeatte, Mr. Louis's ROYAL, MECHANICAL, and OPTICAL Darhibition wall continue open Four Nights longer only, with the Addition of a New Pirca. Monday, April 1,1815, Wednesday, Thurday and Friday following, the 5th, 6th, and 7th. And, in erder to make his Exhibition mill more wartly of the Public Patrosage, the Proprietor bege leave to inform them, that, in Addition to the whale Selection already exhibited with UNBOUNDED APPLAUSE, he will introduce, every Evening, A SUPERB MECHANICAL Peacocl AS LARGE AS LIFE, In its Natural Plumage! Which imitates, so closely, the CRIES, ACTIONS, and ATTITUDES of that stately and beautiful Bird, that it is not unfrequently supposed to be an absolute living Animal. properly trained to act as as Amasing Deception. Ahbongh - Description cas property itlestrate these . Ast. yet to merey to the pablic sa des of their and of the imitative powers with waxh these Figares - esplanation mbitted, they exb.bited the follewing - " are . manaer TWO ELEGANT AUTOMATA, As large as melare, the - . POLONNESE, the - . sov. Nething cae the adroicable of these Pieces. The large Figure - alment with bumse Faculties, eshiliting the esual feste of . Mope- Dancer, in the felless of hfs. The - Figare . envested with equally astonishing powere of activa. To sech ledice - are spectasore it - be . very that these exertious do not escite thowe - whird arese the aight of Pigares freught with lite. performies feas ettended with - mech dange. A Superb MUSICAL LADY, Represeeting the BELLE BOXLANE, whe pleye with the grentess preceise Sistere Arra, every - preveede frove the presere of the and feet, - the apprepriate keys, - keing persea, with the of her besd. eyes, and eye-hds, . directed to the heye. The compect and well preperticeed forma, and easy enaffected air of thie Female Figure, have been gvessly and considured by the very best jedges - happy combission of the asta of Desige - Nechaniom, whish predeces . the same tiase the of respiratice. THE MSCHANICAL DRAWING AND WRITING MASTER, A JUVENILE ARTIST. The figure of Ecy, who, with every actice of resi life will escrate is presence of the compeey, of Drawing and Vriting, seperier - the best of the - if Sigure were destatute of " weeld be picteresque, but whee, wsth the case and of well educated youth, " saites the power of produciag such perfect imitation of estere, as almet se - the Gree's Mythology. whee spesking of figures formed est of sordid clay. which, by Premethers, atarted isto life and, extreerdisary as the fable apprera, it ie equalled, it not by the wenderfal of thie ógure. AN OLD NECROMANCER, - fairly be decominaled the Brisad Enchänter, for few af the fabled vales comcersing the - of these purking - " their native groves of Preidical whene vagie quella impred every bregh, could - bryand the realities of the whe the ques- that are - him. with the precition of - Oracle any from the apisité - - - the anciest - for this sapient Sine's Decisione origisate in of the perhanical powers, The Liute @paniarb: This ragalated by mutic, le which be Weape sime with eritical and exactass. The agility at this he are fermed with - by which it the ef making harre. and acimity. of the whinh is - will gire the * ides et the of the A BIRD OF PARADISE, Sapers Cold - - te ler in - bea. The - of die piece af reay le - and for delinacy of - de - Orginal, - - d decience of Optics. The Proprister - - . of IDEAL PERSPECTIVE PROSPECTS of the ELYSIAN FIELDS, And other vnews. The effert predured, - if lighoqued by the Mees, is whoch ERIAL SPERITS and SHADIS of great - will -marge - being - pisce of the Scieace of OPTICA, and of whiph the - dert of - - - - to predace the hs. The whole to seità - s - of brillions Nechonical and Fire-Works, A Louis programme of April 3rd, 1815, in which the writing and drawin figure is advertised as a juvenile artist. It also features a bird of paradi: automaton which Robert-Houdin claimed to have invented thirty years late From the Harry Houdini Collection. [08] |