(Whale, Gigantic) | In the belly of the whale

(Whale, Gigantic) 

Pavilion of the Gigantic Whale, Opposite the National Repository, Charing Cross. London: T. Brettell Haymarket, ca. 1830?

Broadside (753 x 500 mm). Printed in blue, numerous fonts; old folds, minor offsetting and smudging, hole with loss at central fold. Mounted, framed, and glazed with Plexiglas; not examined out of frame.  

"Persons desirous of being admitted into the Saloon, to inspect and sit in the BELLY OF THE WHALE, where Twenty-Four Musicians performed a concert; and to examine the Album, which is already one of the most remarkable on Europe, by the respectability of it’s Signatures will Pay…Two Shillings" (broadside text).

REFERENCE:

Exemplars, pp. 92-93