Description Of Item | Poster is a playbill for the entertainment for the week including 10th April 1823. This included a performance by Antonio Moretti, an Italian man born without arms. His performance included a playing violin, drum, and triangle, loading and shooting a pistol, threading a needle, and pouring and drinking a glass of wine, before ending with a show of fencing. Other performances listed were melodramas entitled the Siege of Saragossa and Lowina of Tobolskoi.
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