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Images

  • Julianne Sleebus, a woman with a large beard. Process print, 190-.
  • Gruss von Hede.
  • Madamoiselle Lefort, a bearded woman. Stipple engraving, 1819.
  • Julia Pastrana, a bearded woman, embalmed. Wood engraving, 1862.
  • Johann Staininger, a man with a very long beard. Line engraving, 1814.
  • For twelve nights only, commencing Monday, Feb. 23, 1874 : South London Palace, London Road / proprietors, Speedy & Poole.
  • Madame Delait.
  • Old Parr, an elderly apothecary with an extremely long beard mixing a concoction with a pestle and mortar. Pen drawing by Matthews(?), 1861(?).
  • Barbara van Beck, a hirsute woman. Mezzotint.
  • Barbara van Beck. Oil painting, ca. 1650.
All images (78)

Works

    • Ephemera

    Oversize ephemera. EPH+33.

  • view The hirsute Kostroma people from the primeval forests of central Russia : the first of their kind ever seen in England.
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    The hirsute Kostroma people from the primeval forests of central Russia : the first of their kind ever seen in England.

    | Date: [1874]
  • view Anna Macallame, a bearded woman. Line engraving.
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Anna Macallame, a bearded woman. Line engraving.

    | Reference: 881i
    • Books

    Androgens, virilization and the hirsute female / by Eugene J. Segre.

    Segre, Eugene J. | Date: [1967]
  • view Julia Pastrana, "the nondescript", advertised for exhibition. Colour woodcut.
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Julia Pastrana, "the nondescript", advertised for exhibition. Colour woodcut.

    Regent Gallery (Regent Street, London, England) | Reference: 38980i
All works (47)

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