The Suffolk wonder: or, The pleasant, facetious, and merry dwarf of Bottesdale

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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: 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: English