Remarkable Characters.- Peak (William, publisher) and others. Collection of 6 portraits relating to remarkable characters and their stories, including a fantastic impression of Eva Fliegen (b. 1575), reputed to have fasted for seventeen years; an engraved portrait of Mary "The German Princess" Carleton, the English socialite and fraudster famous for using a number of false identities to marry and defraud upper-class men; Sutton Nicholls' 'Old Harry with his Rare Show, Old Harry with his Gallant Show', the showman famous for allowing punters to look at objects through magnifying glasses, together with a later impression of the same; a Dutch portrait of the tight rope walker 'Sr. Pieter Magito' who walked on ropes while wearing clogs; and a portrait of 'Captn. Robert Barclay', famous for walking long distances at very steady slow speeds to the applause of thousands of spectators, etchings, engravings, one with mezzotint, various sizes between 105 x 72 mm (4 1/8 x 2 3/4 in) and 410 x 260 mm (16 1/8 x 10 1/4 in), all unframed, circa 1615 to 1809 (6)
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