Two broadsides advertising exhibitions at the Eidephusicon, Leicester Square, London, [1825?], [1837?]

The Eidephusicon (sometimes Eidophusikon) is an ingenious miniature theatre that combined sound, light, and rudimentary mechanics, to display moving scenes and panoramas. First opened in London in 1781, it drew large crowds, and was briefly a sensation. Little is known of its operations into the 19th century, but it was still operating in the 1820s, as this broadside references scenes from Walter Scott’s novel The Abbott, first published in 1820.