print; frontispiece

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Object Type: print; frontispiece
Museum number: 1868,0808.13529
Title: Object: 30 Extraordinary Characters &c. described in the Work.
Description: Thirty popular characters depicted around a staircase: Ann Siggs, Mother Damnable, Sam House, Roger Smith, Dirty Dick (Richard Bontloy), Masaniello, Billy Waters, Martyn Van Butchell, Charles Mackie, Bamfylde Moore Carew, Andrew Ritson, Sir John Dineley, Old Patch, the Durham Dwarf, John Richards, Patrick O'Brien, Robert Nixon, Sir Thomas Parkyns, Daniel Lambert, Old Parr, James G. Semple, Clark the posture master, Barbary Urslerin, Old Boots, Daniel Dancer, Matthew Robinson, 2nd Baron Rokeby, Foster Powell, James Aitken, on the wall Colosssus of Rhodes; views of a waterspout at left, Vesuvius at right, and below Polar regions, Tartarian lamb and Egyptian pyramids; frontispiece to a book. Stipple and engraving
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Production date: 1806-1850 (c.)
Materials
Technique: stipple; engraving
Dimensions: Height: 190 millimetres; Width: 255 millimetres (trimmed or cut)
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Location: Not on display
Subjects: gigantism/dwarfism; beggar
Associated names: Portrait of: Ann Siggs; Portrait of: Patrick Cotter; Portrait of: Mother Damnable; Portrait of: Roger Smith; Portrait of: Richard Bentley; Portrait of: Masaniello (?); Portrait of: Billy Waters; Portrait of: Martin van Butchell; Portrait of: Charles Mackie; Portrait of: Bampfylde Moore Carew; Portrait of: Andrew Ritson; Portrait of: Sir John Dineley-Goodere, 5th Baronet of Dineley; Portrait of: Richard Patch; Portrait of: John Richards; Portrait of: Robert Nixon; Portrait of: Daniel Lambert; Portrait of: Sir Thomas Parkyns (?); Portrait of: Thomas Parr; Portrait of: James George Semple; Portrait of: Samuel Horsey; Portrait of: Joseph Clark; Portrait of: Barbary Urslerin; Portrait of: Boots (?); Portrait of: Daniel Dancer; Portrait of: Matthew Robinson-Morris, 2nd Baron Rokeby; Portrait of: Foster Powell; Portrait of: James Aitken
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1868
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1868,0808.13529

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