In Paris, at the theatre of M. Comte, in 1819, a female dwarf was exhibited ... : Though the surgeons removed to Lincoln's Inn Fields at the commencement of this century ... Hunter's Museum, formerly in Leicester Square, was purchased from his widow by the government for 15,000£ ...

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[Between 1840 and 1880?]
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In Paris, at the theatre of M. Comte, in 1819, a female dwarf was exhibited ... : Though the surgeons removed to Lincoln's Inn Fields at the commencement of this century ... Hunter's Museum, formerly in Leicester Square, was purchased from his widow by the government for 15,000£ ... Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Small broadside about King Stanislaus of Poland arranging a marriage of Nicolas Ferri, the celebrated dwarf and "a female dwarf" in 1761 and the woman being exhibited in Paris in 1819 with an article pasted onto it about the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons of England and some of the human curiosities it contained.

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[Between 1840 and 1880?]

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1 sheet ; 19 x 12 cm

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