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  • Wybrant Lolkes, a dwarf with his wife. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1821.
  • Margeret M'Avoy, blind but with remarkable perception. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1821.
  • Elias Hoyle, aged 113. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1822.
  • Le Chevalier D'Éon, a man who passed as a woman. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1821.
  • Ann Moore, a fraudulent fasting woman. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1822.
  • Simon Paap, a dwarf. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1823.
  • Henry Dimsdale, an eccentric who calls himself 'Mayor of Garratt'. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper.
  • Daniel Lambert, a very large man. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1821.
  • Peter, the wild boy, as an older man. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1821.
  • Le Chevalier Michel Descazeaux du Halley, an eccentric. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1821.
  • John Broughton, "the founder of the British school of boxing". Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1822.
  • Josephine Giraldelli, a woman impervious to fire. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1823.
  • Jenny Darney, a travelling eccentric. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1821.
  • Thomas Hills Everett, an enormous infant. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1822.
  • Nice New, an eccentric street peddler of Reading. Engraving by R. Cooper.
  • Samuel House, a patriotic publican. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1822.
  • Peter Williamson, kidnapped as a child and transported to the American plantations; became traveller and writer. Reproduction of an engraving by R. Cooper.
  • Joźef Boruwlaski, a dwarf (with his wife and child?).
  • Renwick Williams, a man convicted of wounding women. Reproduction of a stipple engraving.
  • Henry Constantine Jennings, an eccentric collector. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1821.
  • Madame Teresa, a dwarf known as The Corsican Fairy. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1821.
  • Foster Powell, a pedestrian. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1821.
  • Toby, a beggar who pretended to be blind and lame. Engraving by R. Cooper, 1822.
  • Elias Hoyle, aged 113. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1822.
  • Ann Moore, a fraudulent fasting woman. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1822.
  • Thomas Laugher, known as Old Tommy, aged 107. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1821.
  • William Stevenson, a hoarding beggar. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1821.
  • Le Chevalier D'Éon, a man who passed as a woman. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1810.
  • Thomas Hudson, an unfortunate man. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1821.
  • Jane Lewson, an elderly eccentric. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1821.