Just arrived in this city, and to be seen in the Tontine Assembly Room, Glasgow, Aubin's Royal Cabinet of Curiosities, which gave unbounded satisfaction at the Town-Hall, Cambridge, the Guild-Hall, Norwich, and lately twelve months at Liverpool, ...
Aubin, Philip.
Glasgow : Printed by Chapman & Lang, Glasgow.,
[1799]
Caption title.
With woodcuts of a coat of arms and a sailing ship.
The identity of Philip Aubin has not been established.
Aubin's Royal Cabinet of Curiosities comprised a huge variety of art, historical objects and models, many with a maritime theme, including a "beautiful glass man of war carrying 26 guns ... a precious collection of figures in rice paste ... an exact model of ... the Palace of the Thuilleries [Tuileries] ... a grand glass pagoda, from Lord Macartney's Embassy to China, a beautiful 64 gun ship, in relievo, cut in paper with scissors ... the bread fruit ripe, and fit for the table, the first to be imported into Great-Britain ... a curious model of the guillotine".
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A manuscript note at the head of the sheet reads "I see Cabinet, here, in '99.".
Cabinets of curiosities