Imprint Record

Exhibition Notice for Historical Pieces of Wax Work (A).

• Imprint Number: 1808.048
• Title: There is now exhibiting at [blank] an ingenious and entertaining variety of historical pieces of wax work … Richmond, Printed by T. Nicolson, second house below the Bank.
• Sequence Number: 48
• Year: 1808
• Place Issued: Richmond
• Issuing Press: Thomas Nicolson
• Author: Museum of Wax Work (1808)
• Notes: The only known exhibition of wax figures in Richmond in 1808 was advertised in the city's newspapers that November, making this item one of the last identifiable Thomas Nicolson imprints; he died in Richmond on November 10, 1808 at about fifty-eight years-of-age.
  Those advertising notices report that the exhibition of "the celebrated Museum of Wax-Work" consisted of "thirty selected figures, from the first collection in America, which is particularly described in hand-bills." This item was one of two such hand-bills that have survived in the Library of Congress; the content herein focused on royal personages and their courts; while the other (1808.049) described biblical figures in the exhibition.
  
  
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  • Thomas Nicolson

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