Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Positively the last week. The original salamander. Wonders never cease! The great phenomena! of nature, Signora Josephine Giraldelli ... is now exhibiting at 349, Strand, between Exeter 'change and Catherine-Street, the powers of resistance against heat. She will commence her performance by passing plates of red hot iron over her legs! She will then stamp on a plate of red hot iron, with her naked feet, afterwards draw it over her hair and across her tongue after which she will, without symptom of pain, wash her hands in boiling oil; and take a part of the same into her mouth ...

Accession number
PML 146639, p. 474c
Published
[London : s.n., ca. 1820]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Broadside advertising a performance by "human salamander" Josephine Giraldelli.
Broadside inlaid and inserted as the third plate (i.e. plate "c") after p. 474 into v. 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of Henry Morley's Memoirs of Batholomew Fair (London : Chapman and Hall, 1859), see PML 146639.
Description
1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 36 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Classification
Department