The living skeleton [graphic]

Description

Title: The living skeleton [graphic]
Creator: Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, artist
Contributor: Fairburn, John, 1768 or 1769-1832, publisher.
Published / Created: [July 1825]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. July 1825 by J. Fairburn Broadway Ludgate Hill
Abstract: Three full-length images of Claude-Ambroise skeletal body shown wearing only a cloth around his waist
Description: Title from caption below image.
With a pamphlet containing 18 unnumbered pages, with a half-title and no imprint with a biographical sketch and a description of his person: A description of the person, habits, customs, &c. of the living skeleton.
Watermark: J. Whatman.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xviii, p. 65.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 24.6 x 35 cm, on sheet 28 x 37 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait prints
Etchings England London 1825
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Seurat, Claude-Ambroise, 1798-1841.
Seurat, Claude-Ambroise, 1798-1841,
Subject (Topic): Freak Show
Thin people
Human curiosities
Physical conditions
Subjects: Seurat, Claude-Ambroise, 1798-1841
Freak Show
Thin people
Human curiosities
Physical conditions
England > London > 1825

Access: Public
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