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Gratton, George Alexander, 1808-1813.

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  • The beautiful spotted negro boy / Richardson's New Theatre.
  • The cabinet of curiosities, or wonders of the world displayed. No.5, The Spotted Negro Boy.
  • The cabinet of curiosities, or wonders of the world displayed. No.5, The Spotted Negro Boy.
  • On Wednesday morning last died, at the house of Mr. Richardson, Horsemonger-lane, Southwark, aged four year and nine months, George Alexander, the late celebrated and surprising spotted West Indian ...
  • On Wednesday morning last died, at the house of Mr. Richardson, Horsemonger-lane, Southwark, aged four year and nine months, George Alexander, the late celebrated and surprising spotted West Indian ...

Catalogue

    • Ephemera
    • Online

    The cabinet of curiosities, or wonders of the world displayed. No.5, The Spotted Negro Boy.

    | Date: [between 1820 and 1860?]
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Wonderful spotted boy : seventeen months old from the Caribbee islands, in the West Indies : to be seen at no.41, Strand, near Messrs. Couts & Co. bankers : he is the progeny of negroes, on whose body is a display of the works of God, being beautifully covered by a diversity of spots of the most beautiful black and transparent brown and white.

    | Date: [1810?]
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Wonderful spotted boy : seventeen months old, from the Caribee Islands, in the West Indies : to be seen at no.42, Piccadilly, opposite St. James' Churc. He is the progeny of negroes, on whose body is a display of the wonderful works of God ...

    | Date: [1810?]
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    The beautiful spotted negro boy / Richardson's New Theatre.

    | Date: [between 1810 and 1813?]
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    On Wednesday morning last died, at the house of Mr. Richardson, Horsemonger-lane, Southwark, aged four year and nine months, George Alexander, the late celebrated and surprising spotted West Indian ...

    | Date: [1813]

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