A manager of a penny show in conversaton with one of the characters whom he is exhibiting. Wood engraving.

1 print : wood engraving ; border 10.6 x 11.9 cm

Manager of penny show: "Look here, 'Tildy, what have you shifted places for?" Adipose lady: " Why, boss, you said me and the nigger chief was al'ays a-quarrelling, and I wanted to prove that there was not nothing between us! See?" The characters exhibited are labelled "Fat lady", "The thin duke", and "Chief of the Poggi-Woggis". On the right, a plant in human form is displayed in a belljar and labelled "Vegetable man"

Wellcome Collection 3874i