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  • Charles S. Stratton, a dwarf known as General Tom Thumb, before Europe's monarchs. Wood engraving by E. Evans.
  • Skeletons of a male giant and a female dwarf, displayed at the Royal College of Surgeons. Process print.
  • [Undated handbill advertising George Conquest as 'Harlequin, the Yellow Dwarf', a grand Christmas pantomime at Alexandra Palace, London].
  • [Undated handbill advertising George Conquest as 'Harlequin, the Yellow Dwarf', a grand Christmas pantomime at Alexandra Palace, London].
  • Four vignettes of the marriage of General Tom Thumb to another dwarf, Miss Warren. Reproduction of an etching.
  • Three dwarf hogoblins, two of them in monastic habits, drinking from tumblers. Aquatint by F. Goya, ca. 1797.
  • Challenge to the American dwarf, General Tom Thumb : the English dwarf, Field Marshal Tom Thumb, now exhibiting daily, at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly ... to appear and perform with him in public, so that their respective admirers may judge of their comparative merits ...
  • A dwarf at the court of King Philip IV of Spain. Etching by M. Pineda Montón after D. Velazquez.
  • J. Worrenburg, the Swiss Dwarf : Little Sarah. Died, at Madron, on Monday, Miss Sarah Roberts, aged 90 years.
  • The dwarf Francisco Lezcano, "El Niño de Vallecas". Oil painting by M. Pineda Montón after Diego Velazquez de Silva.
  • Chang Yu-sing the Chinese giant, with his wife, King-Foo and Chung Mow, a dwarf. Wood engraving, 1865.
  • Charles Byrne, a giant, George Cranstoun, a dwarf, and three other normal sized men. Etching by J. Kay, 1794.
  • Samuel Mcdonald, a giant and George Cranstoun, a dwarf, with a third normal sized man. Etching by J. Kay.
  • The Achondroplastic dwarf, Chnoum-hotep. From the lime-stone statuette found at Saqqarah and now in the Cairo Museum
  • [Leaflet (September 1894) giving a brief account ot the life of Anastasia Boruwlaski, sister to the celebrated dwarf, Josef Boruwlaski].
  • [Leaflet (September 1894) giving a brief account ot the life of Anastasia Boruwlaski, sister to the celebrated dwarf, Josef Boruwlaski].
  • To be seen at ... the English Dwarf : this amazing prodigy of nature was born at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire ...
  • Challenge to the American dwarf, General Tom Thumb : the English dwarf, Field Marshal Tom Thumb, now exhibiting daily, at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly ... to appear and perform with him in public, so that their respective admirers may judge of their comparative merits : General Tom Thumb. Imposition!!.
  • Richard Gibson, a dwarf to Charles I, with a small roundel of Anne Gibson, his wife. Line engraving by A. Walker.
  • A dwarf at the court of King Philip IV of Spain. Oil painting by M. Pineda Montón after Diego Velazquez de Silva.
  • A dwarf at the court of King Philip IV of Spain. Oil painting by M. Pineda Montón after Diego Velazquez de Silva.
  • A male dwarf, playing the violin to a family in a rural setting. Etching by P.S. Lamborne after A. van Ostade.
  • Relief of Jeffery Hudson, a dwarf, Walter Parsons, a giant, and another subject. Line engraving by T. Barber after T.H. Shepherd.
  • Charles S. Stratton, a dwarf known as General Tom Thumb, standing by his carriage. Coloured lithograph by C. Sicker after F.Grenier.
  • [Handbill advertising appearances from Chang, the great Chinese Giant, and chung Mow, the tartar rebel dwarf, at the Egyptian Hall (Piccadilly, London)].
  • [Undated handbill (1865/6?) advertising a levee with Chang, the Fychow giant and Chung Mow, the tartar dwarf, at the Egyyptian Hall, London].
  • [Undated handbill (1865/6?) advertising a levee with Chang, the Fychow giant and Chung Mow, the tartar dwarf, at the Egyyptian Hall, London].
  • The dwarf Jeffrey Hudson sits on a table reading a large book to Julian Peveril. Engraving by Charles Fox after David Wilkie.
  • Joseph Grimaldi dressed as a Red Indian points to a pantomime creature in a scene from the pantomime, Red Dwarf. Etching by W. Heath, ca. 1811.
  • A lame dwarf being helped to a wheelchair by a monk. Pen and ink drawing after a design attributed to P.L. Ghezzi.