Title

Dutch Playbill for Doctor Silvester

Description

A playbill advertising a performance by the English magician Doctor Silvester, who toured Australia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia during the 1870s and 1880s. This particular playbill promotes a show in Jakarta—then known as Batavia—and features an illustration of Doctor Silvester's "Beautiful Entranced Lady" aerial suspension illusion, performed with his daughter Daisy.

Date

1880s

Source

https://archives.libraries.london.ac.uk/Details/archive/110005815

Format

Playbill

Century

19th

Exhibition Theme

Collecting Spineless Wonders

Subject

Magic shows

Performance

Magic tricks