The Chinese sensitive plant, or, The living leaf : patronized by the Emperor of China, the principal court of Europe, the Royal Family, and nobility of Great Britain.
Alternate Title(s):
Living leaf
Published / Created:
[England?] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1850]
Physical Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 28 x 22 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts BF1874 .C456 1850 Box Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Related Content:
View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:14059518
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Handbill describing a parlour entertainment. The Chinese sensitive leaves were small pieces of thin material that when placed into someone's hand would react by curling in a way that would reveal the constitution of the person."Price sixpence.""Vivat Regina En Princeps."Woodcut of Royal Arms at top.BAC: British Art Center copy torn at top. Lacks 'sensitive' leaf.Early accounts of the same phenomenon include: A curious discovery: an account of the remarkable sympathetic power of the Chinese sensitive leaf, invented by Jan Pertista Chaseicto. Philadelphia : Printed by Hall and Pierie no. 51, Market-Street, [between 1807 and 1815].
Subject Terms:
Fortune-telling. | Sympathy (Physiology) | Pseudoscience. | Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. | Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.