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What: Exhibition
Where: Springburn Display Space, Springburn Leisure Centre,
10 Kay Street, Glasgow
When: 29th June 2009 - June 2010
Contact: tel 0141 276 9368

Peddlers of Pleasure - Mr Punch and his International Cousins

In 1662 Samuel Pepys, the diarist, noted that during his stroll in Covent Garden he saw a hooked-nose, red-faced personage with a high pitched squeaky voice - his name Punchinello. This was the first time that he appeared in Great Britain and at that time was a marionette, or string puppet, without the now familiar cast of characters we are used to seeing with him.

This exhibition presents the “immortal villain” and his international cousins along with dozens of objects that have been produced bearing his image for hundreds of years.

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