The white negro girl : a phaenomenon [sic] indeed ... she is now about fifteen years of age, and was born in Jamaica ... N.B. To be sold all sorts of foreign birds, fowls, pigeons, &c. ...

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Title: The white negro girl : a phaenomenon [sic] indeed ... she is now about fifteen years of age, and was born in Jamaica ... N.B. To be sold all sorts of foreign birds, fowls, pigeons, &c. ...
Alternative Title: To the nobility, gentry, and curious in general, there is to be seen at a commodious apartment
Published / Created: [1762?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: At head of title: To the nobility, gentry, and curious in general, there is to be seen at a commodious apartment at the Red-Lyon and Three Pigeons, in Castle-Street, near the King's Mews, by one or more, without loss of tine, at one shilling each person, that wonderful phaenomenon [sic] of nature.
Dropped head title.
Possibly advertisement for Amelia Harlequin (Amelia Lewsam?).
Vignette with royal coat of arms of George II.
Similar advertisement in the Lambeth Palace Library, suggests date of 175- (see ESTC T194884). Reference in Royal Society (Great Britain) Philosophical transactions, v. 55, p. 47 suggests a date around 1762.
For further information, consult library staff.
Extent: 1 sheet ([1] p.) ; 21 x 17 cm
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: File 66 762 W58

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Advertisements
Brit tracts
Subjects: Brit tracts > 1762

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Orbis Record: 8712157
Object ID (OID): 10980214