(Pinetti, Giuseppe) | The famed magician Pinetti works the Netherlands

(Pinetti, Giuseppe)

Met Permissie van de Edel Mog. H. Heeren Burgemeesteren en de Raad in Groningen ... Groningen: Leonard Bolt, 1790

Printed broadside (394 x 191 mm). Text within a border of printer's ornaments; four crease folds, otherwise in very good condition. Matted, framed, and glazed with Plexiglas.

Broadcasting Pinetti's week-long magic show (1–6 November 1790) at the riding academy in Groningen. Pinetti was among the first magicians to advertise his abilities as an illusionist and conjurer.The broadside announces that Giuseppe Pinetti "famous throughout Europe, coming from Amsterdam has the honor to announce to the public at the request of several persons … to show his scientific experiments … from his famous cabinet []of which] he only has pieces of the Metamorphosis or shape shifting …" The rest of the document enumerates the type of magic tricks he will perform, which include audience participation.