Title etched below image., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., Inscription after title: The wonderful and surprising English dwarf 3 foot 6 inches high, born in Persia, is fifty six years old, speaks eighteen languages sings Italian, dances to admiration and with the ropes ty'd to his hair when put over his shoulders lifts the great stone A., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Dwarfs (Persons)., Ropes, Bodybuilders, Human curiosities, and Dwarfs
Title below each image., Top print is ca. 1720. Bottom print is 18th century. Dates supplied by curator., Place of publication supplied by curator., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Quacks and quackery, Alchemy, Medicines, Scientific equipment, Purses, Rich people, Coal, Dwarfs, Medicine shows, and Physicians
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Attribution is questionable., Sheet partially trimmed., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Pubd.by G. Johnson
Subject (Name):
Lolkes, Wybrand, 1733-.
Subject (Topic):
Dwarfism, Dwarfs (Persons)., Dwarfs, Human curiosities, and Spouses
The frontispiece to an enlarged version of Henry Fielding's The tragedy of tragedies ... London : Printed and sold by J. Roberts, 1731. Hogarth chose Act II, scene viii, a burlesque of the meeting of Octavia nd Cleopatra in Drydens' All for love. The Princess Huncamunca and the Amazon Glumdalca, rivals for the love of Thumb. Hogarth show Huncamunca with large breasts and heavy arms, thick neck, and cherubic countenance
Description:
Title and date from Paulson., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Note in Steevens's hand above: Tom thumb / 171., and On page 52 in volume 1.
A "Lilliputian" couple in the costume of late 17th century walk from right to left, the verse engraved below them. The design and verse are encirled by a rococco border which incorporates objects and figures that amplify the subject verse
Alternative Title:
Sir Jeffrey Jumble and my lady Grave-airs
Description:
Title from item., Later state of one of a series of etchings representing the months of the year. The month name "January" has been burnished from the top of the image, as has the text "The twelve months represented by" that was present above the remaining text "Lilliputian figures". For an earlier state, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1874,0214.1., Date of publication based on the ca. 1840 date given in the British Museum for the earlier state of the plate., Six lines of verse below title: Dear Duck, while thus abroad we go, expos'd to chilling frost and snow ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Series title, including month designation, partially erased from this impression., Traces of an earlier imprint burnished from plate and replaced with John Bowles's publication line., and Suggested restrike date in an unverified card catalog record: ca. 1810.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by Iohn Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill
"Portrait of a Persian dwarf, full-length, slightly turned to the left, holding up ropes tied to his hair, dressed in a frockcoat with the skirts buttoned back and with a Turkish hat on his head, a large weight at his side, a harlequin pointing to an advertisement for the dwarf on a shed beyond, the whole surrounded by scrolling rococo foliate and shell designs."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Wonderful strong and surprising Persian dwarf
Description:
Title etched below image., Approximate date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue. Also from contemporary newspaper clipping mounted with print on the Lewis Walpole Library impression., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted with a contemporary newspaper clipping, dated 18 July 1740, announcing the arrival of the Persian dwarf.
publish'd May [the] 27th 1742, according to act of Parliament.
Call Number:
742.05.27.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Owen Farrel in Covent Garden, full length, walking to right, glancing towards front, with hat in his right hand and staff in the left; behind him two children gesture towards him and a dog yaps between his feet at another; a woman with a wheelbarrow, another man and a boy on the right, turning and exclaiming to their left; St Paul's Church behind them."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Description of life and person of Owen Farrel below image: He was born in the county of Caven & in [the] year 1716 was footman to a colonel at Dublin ..., Dedicated by the printmaker to Cromwell Mortimer, M.D., "Price 1 s.", and Mounted to 41 x 26 cm.
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
Alternative Title:
Pleasant, facetious, and merry dwarf of Bottesdale
Description:
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'?, and Preserved in a modern mount. For further information, consult library staff.
Title etched within item., Print for February. One of a series of etchings representing the months of the year. Only the image for January has the series title "Lilliputian figures"., Six lines of verse below image: Of all the times for leud [sic] delights, There's none like masquerading nights ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Lilliputians -- Literature: allusion to Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes, 1547-1616., Month designation in series erased from this impression., and Suggested restrike date in an unverified card catalog record: ca. 1810.
