RICHARD NAPOLEON MONTANARI - Mr. Montanari's Royal Exhibition of Wax Work Models... with an interesting collection of Mexican Wax Figure Models illustrating Civilized and Savage life in Mexico, with the National Sport of Bull Fighting in all its Stages.

Leicester Square, c. 1850. Complimentary ticket, 90 x 110 mm. printed on yellow and mounted on thin card. The Montanari family were among the best known UK producers of wax dolls in the Victorian era. (Richard) Napoleon Montanari [born about 1813] was a wax modeller> his wife Madame Montanari [born Charlotte Augusta Dalton in Grantham in about 1818] was a dollmaker who specialised in producing exquisitely dressed dolls on poured wax models, many of which survive.

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