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Carter's Lion Chariot Feat, 1844. Creator: Unknown

Carter's Lion Chariot Feat, 1844. Circus act at Astley's Amphitheatre in London: Mr. Batty, the enterprising proprietor of this popular establishment, has recently added to its attractions, a spectacle entitled Mungo Park, in which Mr. Carter as "Karfa, the Lion Tamer of the Niger", introduces many extraordinary feats with his trained troop of wild animals'. Here we see Mr. Carter, the American Lion King, in ...a scene is of a more classical character...the "Tamer" driving a lion at full speed across the stage, reined with a garland of flowers'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol V

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Tis The Pace That Kills, 1911

Tis The Pace That Kills, 1911. Antique Victorian Print of a horse in the fox hunt suffering from exhaustion. Fox hunting is an activity involving the tracking, chase, and sometimes killing of a fox, traditionally a red fox, by trained foxhounds or other scent hounds, and a group of unarmed followers on foot or horseback. From The Connoisseur Vol XXX. [Otto Limited, London, 1911]

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