Author: JAMES BURNS
Title: Or Squeaking Tommy, a well known Ventriloquist through the County of Nottingham> died January 7th 1796.
Description: R.S. Kirby, 1804. Engraving, 200 x 120 mm. Squeaking Tommy used a doll as a dummy for projecting his voice but was also fond of projecting as if from inside a box and even frightened a poor girl into believing the fish which she was preparing was speaking to her. From R.S. Kirby's Wonderful and Eccentric Museum> or, Magazine of Remarkable Characters. 1803 - 20.

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