Joseph Jacobs (magician)
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| birth_date = c. 1813
| birth_place = Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
| death_date = {{death date and given age|1870|10|13|57|df=y}}
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| other_names = {{hlist|The Wizard Jacobs|Jacobs the Wizard|The Great Jacobs}}
| occupation = Entertainer
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Joseph Jacobs (c. 1813 – 13 October 1870), also known by the stage names The Wizard Jacobs, Jacobs the Wizard, and The Great Jacobs, was an English magician, improvisatore, and ventriloquist.
Biography
Jacobs was born to a Jewish family in Canterbury, Kent.{{r|prawer}} He appeared on stage at an early age, visiting Dover, Brighton, Bath, and other provincial towns during the summer and autumn of 1834.{{r|frost}} He first appeared in London at Horn's Tavern, Kennington, in 1835, where he performed the Chinese ring trick.{{r|JE}} Four years later he had the honour of performing before the Princess Augusta at Brighton.{{r|frost}}
At the Strand Theatre in 1841, he made a great show of expensive apparatus in imitation of J. H. Anderson.{{r|boase}} He performed in 1846 the trick of turning ink into transparent water in which goldfish swam, and in 1850 he introduced the trick of producing from under a shawl bowls of water containing goldfish, afterwards throwing the shawl on the floor, and then, on raising it again, disclosing live ducks or rabbits.{{r|frost}}
He appeared at the Adelaide Gallery in 1853, in America in 1854, and in 1860 in Australia and New Zealand. In 1860 he also opened the Polygraphic Hall in London.{{r|boase}}
References
{{Jewish Encyclopedia|article=Jacobs, Joseph (known as Jacobs the Wizard)|url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/8476|first1=Joseph|last1=Jacobs|first2=Goodman|last2=Lipkind|volume=7|page=46}}
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