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  • Royal Aquarium : Chang, the great Chinese giant : admission one shilling.
  • William Bradley, a giant. Engraving by S. Freeman, 1811, after T. Peat.
  • Chang Yu-sing the Chinese giant, and Chung Mow, a dwarf. Photograph.
  • Relief of Jeffery Hudson, a dwarf, and Walter Parsons, a giant. Etching.
  • A giant holding a dwarf in his hand, with many spectators. Wood engraving.
  • A sperm whale attacks a giant squid. Colour line block after A. Twidle.
  • Four giant hands clawing at a tiny person. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1969.
  • A giant coluber snake swallowing a panther. Etching after Howitt, 1 April 1812.
  • Four giant hands clawing at a tiny person. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1969.
  • Patrick O'Brien, a giant. Etching by A. van Assen, 1804, after J. Parry.
  • Two giant crabs of Japan shown under water. Colour line block after T. Carreras.
  • Royal Aquarium : Chang, the great Chinese giant : just arrived : admission one shilling.
  • Royal Aquarium : Chang, the great Chinese giant : just arrived : admission one shilling.
  • Simon Paap, a dwarf and James Toller, a giant. Line engraving by S. Springsguth, 1817.
  • An Indian swordsman slays a giant woman. Gouache painting by an Indian artist, ca. 1750(?).
  • [Newspaper clipping showing the skeletons of Mademoiselle Crachani, a Sicilian dwarf and Patrick O'Brien, the Irish Giant on display at the Royal College of Surgeons].
  • [Newspaper clipping showing the skeletons of Mademoiselle Crachani, a Sicilian dwarf and Patrick O'Brien, the Irish Giant on display at the Royal College of Surgeons].
  • Show Bill. Attractions at the Middlesex Music Hall 'Mogul Tavern' 167, Drury Lane on Monday 6 December 1886 includes 'Pat O'Brien, the great Irish Giant and his wife, the renowed German giants.
  • A dwarf on the shoulders of a giant, in a rowdy inn. Etching by G. Cruikshank.
  • Maximilian Christopher Miller, a giant, aged 59, with three spectators. Engraving after L.P. Boitard, 1733.
  • [Newspaper cutting about the "Death of the Austrian giant" "Winkelmayer" (Franz Winkelmeier) in Vienna from tuberculosis].
  • The flower of a giant water lily (Victoria amazonica) Coloured lithograph, c. 1850, after C. Rosenberg.
  • A relief of an athlete holding a giant clock above his head. Colour process print, 1908.
  • A naked woman threatened by two witches and a giant hand. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1959.
  • A relief of an athlete holding a giant clock above his head. Colour process print, 1908.
  • A naked woman threatened by two witches and a giant hand. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1959.
  • Edward Bamfield, a giant, and John Coan, a dwarf. Engraving by J. Roberts, 1771, after B. Rackstraw.
  • Kleene Jannetie, a dwarf aged 46 and Lange Jacob, a giant aged 40. Mezzotint by J. Gole.
  • Angelina Melius, a giant, aged nineteen, and Don Santiago de los Santos, a dwarf, aged 35. Engraving.
  • [Undated handbill (June 1880) advertising an appearance by Chang, the Fychow giant, at the Royal Aquarium, London].