Extraordinary Peruvian Relic Handbill, c1832

Item — Box: John Barmwell Taylor Box 1

Reference code: 178T1.149

Scope and Contents

Entire Body of a Peruvian Woman at 172 High Holborn. Body of a Peruvian woman "Buried alive over 500 years ago" and "The body being exhumed, it was found to be in a state of the most perfect preservation". Printed by Turner and Co., Wood Street, one door from Cheapside, London.

Dates

Creation: c1832

Creator

Bramwell Taylor, John, c1912 - 2003 (Person)

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Conditions Governing Use

Copies may be supplied or produced at the discretion of the National Fairground and Circus Archive, subject to copyright law and condition of the material

Extent

1 Item(s) ; 139mm x 220mm

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Arrangement

Catalogued according to type

Physical Description

See The Morning Post (London, England), Wednesday, April 18, 1832; pg. [1]; Issue 191344. – advert in Morning Chronicle for sale of the mummy for £100 on Nov 23 1839 – taken to Dublin for verification earlier in the year and sold to a showman for exhibition firstly in Leicester Square and then High Holborn