Published by London, Pubd. April 8th 1844 Thomas McLean 26 Haymarket, 1844
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Add to basketNo Binding. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Love the ventriloquist. Lithograph of a ¾ length portrait of a man gesturing with his right hand, his left hand on a table with a lamp. Bagnier 1844 , London, Pubd. April 8th 1844 Thomas McLean 26 Haymarket . Mr Love The Polyphonist signed on stone W E Love . 41x26 cm, trimmed and laid on album page. BM has a periodical image: Mr Love as 'Mr Tranquilius Calm', in 'The London Season' [ILN 1855]. See for William Edward Love (1806-1867). Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000). By Steven Connor (but this image is neither illustrated, nor mentioned in chapter 13, about Love). On album page, minor blemish, small 19th. Signed by Author(s).