tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8832859209231480725.post6860025676997588731..comments2024-03-01T04:41:27.615-08:00Comments on Rodama: a blog of 18th-century & Revolutionary France: Curtius's Salon de Cire Rodama1789http://www.blogger.com/profile/06617445289314104257noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8832859209231480725.post-77966971011834174552022-04-03T05:30:27.935-07:002022-04-03T05:30:27.935-07:00The Curtius and Aubin cabinets toured England, app...The Curtius and Aubin cabinets toured England, apparently in the mid- to late 1790s; three broadside announcements naming Curtius are in the Digital Bodleian collection titled "Waxworks", one stating at the end "Mr. Curtius buys all sorts of curiosities" (so presumably during his lifetime). There is also a broadside almost identical in text, but with Aubin's name on it, with a manuscript note that the owner had seen the exhibition in Glasgow in 1799 - did Aubin take over from Curtius? (I can find no record of Aubin's forename, though the National Library of Scotland's catalogue calls him "Philp Aubin". The several broadsides mention display in Norwich, Cambridge, Manchester, and "twelve months at Liverpool" (prior to the Glasgow display). There seems to be no mention in the French sources of this English tour.John Lancasterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02975643198834624714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8832859209231480725.post-68348092924543667622018-09-22T03:31:28.115-07:002018-09-22T03:31:28.115-07:00Very interesting… In terms of passing off characte...Very interesting… In terms of passing off characters under different identities, that seems to fit with his daughter's practice, too.Silverwhistlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00681706061490836033noreply@blogger.com