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[MONKEY SHOW]. Non Plus Ultra. Public Breakfast. [London?], ca. 1785. Fine etching depicts four monkeys seated at a breakfast table attended by liveried servants. Caption reads, “Madamde Pompadour, General Jackoo, Madamde Florenzo & Count Lightfoot. NB. To be seen every evening in the course of the performances at Astley’s Theatre, Westminster Bridge, for a few days only.” Museum frame, sight 8 ¼ x 6 5/8”. Exhibited at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles as part of Ricky Jay’s Extraordinary Exhibitions.