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- Published / Created:
- [not before 1755]
- Call Number:
- 755.00.00.27
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- 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
- 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.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Geographic):
- Suffolk (England)
- Subject (Name):
- Bullock, Christopher, 1708-
- Subject (Topic):
- History, Growth disorders, and Dwarfs
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Suffolk wonder: or, The pleasant, facetious, and merry dwarf of Bottesdale