Palatine, Highman | "such Performances as never were done before"

Palatine, Highman

By Permission of the Mayor of Derby. This is to give Notice, that Highman Palatine, a High-German, Who does such Performances as never were done before... [Derby, ca. 1763]

Broadside playbill (194 x 138 mm). Woodcut vignette depicting the conjuror holding a chalice with a single card on the ground; not examined out of frame, a few spots, old horizontal fold. Matted, framed, and glazed with Plexiglas. 

For this engagement in Derby, Palatine offered various deceptions featuring rings and clothing: "If a gentleman has a ruffled Shirt, and any Person cuts a Piece of it, in less than five minutes he will put it on as well as before. Any Gentleman in Company may take his Ring off his Finger and throw it out the Window, and he will tell the Gentleman that shall have the ring in his Pocket." 

Highman Palatine was performing in France as early as 1753 and again in 1771. He went to England in 1763, probably shortly after the Peace of Paris, and Great Britain seems to have been his base of operations (EE). 

Not recorded in ESTC

REFERENCE:

Exemplars, p. 22; EE, pp. 38-39