Dwarfism.- Exceptional characters.- English School (19th century) Miss Crachami the Sicilian Dwarf, original portrait study, presumably from life, black chalk on wove paper, inscribed underneath in ink and pencil 'large at life', sheet 240 x 185 mm (9 1/2 x 7 1/4 in), tipped onto paper support, some toning and minor surface dirt, unframed, [circa 1820]; together with 16 printed portraits of exceptional people, including Andrew Whiston 'King of the Beggars', Francis Grose, the giant baby 'Thomas Hills Everett, Aged Eleven Months', the giant overweight 'Paul Butterbrodt', the tall man 'James Toller', a portrait of 'Mary Biss aged 107 years', 'Jedidiah Buxton', 'John Molesworth Esq. Aetat 24', 'Signora Giradelli', and 4 others similar, engravings, lithographs, various sizes between 170 x 120 mm (6 3/4 x 4 3/4 in) and 350 x 250 mm (13 3/4 x 9 7/8 in), minor surface dirt and handling creases, unframed, mainly 19th century (17)
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