Grimaldi pursued by his adoring fans after he had to run through streets on the way to a show before jumping into a coach — illustration by Cruikshank from the Memoirs, 1853.
Featured on PDR in the essay The Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi
Andrew McConnell Stott, author of The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi, introduces the life and memoirs of the most famous and celebrated of English clowns.