The Suffolk wonder: or, The pleasant, facetious, and merry dwarf of Bottesdale
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33111757
Description
- Title
- The Suffolk wonder: or, The pleasant, facetious, and merry dwarf of Bottesdale
- Alternative Title
- Pleasant, facetious, and merry dwarf of Bottesdale
- Published / Created
- [not before 1755]
- Publication Place
- Ipswich? and Great Britain England Ipswich
- Publisher
- publisher not identified
- Abstract
-
A broadside on Christopher Bullock, a tiny but fat watch and clock-maker in Suffolk; with a woodcut showing a portrait of Bullock, holding a wig in his left hand, mopping his brow with the other; with letterpress title and text, including information on other people of Suffolk including another dwarf Miss B-t-h-c-r, and a table listing market days and distances from London of towns on the road to Yarmouth, and with one vertical segment of type ornaments. See British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Caption title.
Woodcut of the dwarf dated 1755. See Sheila O'Connell's 'Popular Print in England' (British Museum 1999, cat.4.41) where she shows that the portrait was lifted from an etching of Jacob Powell made a year or two earlier (see British Museum cat.4.40).
Woodcut signed lower left with a italic 'g'?
Preserved in a modern mount. For further information, consult library staff. - Provenance
- Maggs Bros.; August 2023.
- Extent
- 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : 38 x 28 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 755.00.00.27
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Early works to 1800
Early works
Portraits
Broadsides
Woodcuts - Material
- 1 illustration ;
- Resource Type
- text and still image
- Subject (Geographic)
- Suffolk (England)
- Subject (Name)
- Bullock, Christopher, 1708-
- Subject (Topic)
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History
Growth disorders
Dwarfs - Subjects
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Bullock, Christopher, 1708-
Suffolk (England) > History > Early works to 1800
Growth disorders
Dwarfs
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 16735345
- Object ID (OID)
- 33111757