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GRIMALDI, Joseph (1778–1837). SIX HUMOROUS DEPICTIONS OF GRIMALDI PLAYING VARIOUS COMIC PANTOMIMIC ROLES. London, 1807–15. Set of attractively hand-colored etchings by Heath, Fuller, and Ackerman picturing the famous clown in several humorous scenes. Included are: Grimaldi the Nondescript in The Red Dwarf; — Prime Bang Up. Mr. Grimaldi (from The Golden Fish); — Grimaldi’s Leap Frog, in the Comic Pantomime of the Golden Fish; — The Favourite Comic Dance, Messrs. Bologna Junr. and Grimaldi, in the Popular Pantomime of Mother Goose; — Mr. Grimaldi & Mr. Norman in the Epping Hunt from the Popular Pantomime of The Red Dwarf; — and Grimaldi’s Tandem in the Comic Pantomime of the Golden Fish. Under the latter is mounted a small (2½ × 3½") ticket for Box 19 [at the Covent Garden Theatre?], for Grimaldi’s night, hand dated 1812 below in pencil, and reproducing the image from the aforementioned print in orange ink. Each etching image approximately 10¼ × 14½" and mounted on matching stiff cards. Generally bright and attractive; a handsome grouping, delicately and expertly colored.