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  • Relief of Jeffery Hudson, a dwarf, and Walter Parsons, a giant. Etching.
  • Johannes Valerius, a man born without hands or arms. Engraving, 1819.
  • William Brodum, a medical practitioner and medicine vendor. Stipple engraving by E.A. Ezekiel after G. Barry.
  • Four vignettes of the marriage of General Tom Thumb to another dwarf, Miss Warren. Reproduction of an etching.
  • John Lambe, an infamous medical practitioner and magician. Wood engraving.
  • John Lambe, an infamous medical practitioner and magician. Engraving, 1823.
  • Jeffery Hudson, a dwarf and Walter Parsons, a giant. Engraving.
  • Jeffery Hudson, a dwarf and Walter Parsons, a giant. Etching.
  • Robert Hales, a giant. Wood engraving.
  • London School of Tropical Medicine 27th Session.
  • The marriage of Captain Martin van Buren to Anna Swan. Wood engraving, 1871.
  • Chang Yu-sing the Chinese giant, with his wife, King-Foo and Chung Mow, a dwarf. Wood engraving, 1865.
  • Jeffery Hudson, a dwarf. Coloured engraving by J. Stow, 1810, after G.P. Harding after D. Mytens.
  • The piazza outside St Paul's church, Covent Garden, London, full of people selling their wares: a man is holding a placard advertising the products of Doctor Rock, a medicine vendor, and is holding up a bottle of the medicine. Engraving by W. Hogarth, 1738.
  • Madame Teresia, a dwarf known as The Corsican Fairy. Stipple engraving, 1820.
  • Madame Teresa, a dwarf known as The Corsican Fairy. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1821.
  • Matthias Buchinger, a phocomelic man. Stipple engraving.
  • Matthias Buchinger, a phocomelic man, with thirteen scenes representing his performances. Engraving by L. Beger after Elias Baeck.
  • A notice advertising himself by Matthias Buchinger, a phocomelic man. Etching, 1837, in facsimile of a printed notice, 1716.
  • Matthias Buchinger, a phocomelic man. Etching by G. Scott, 1804.
  • Matthias Buchinger, a phocomelic man. Etching.
  • Two miniature people, known as the Aztec Lilliputians, with their manager. Lithograph by G. Wilkinson.
  • Johann Worrenburg, a dwarf, aged 38. Etching, 1688.
  • Johann Worrenburg, a dwarf. Aquatint.
  • Charles S. Stratton, a dwarf known as General Tom Thumb, before Europe's monarchs. Wood engraving by E. Evans.
  • Charles S. Stratton, a dwarf known as General Tom Thumb, in his carriage. Lithograph.
  • Charles S. Stratton, a dwarf known as General Tom Thumb, standing by his carriage. Coloured lithograph by C. Sicker after F.Grenier.
  • Charles S. Stratton, a dwarf known as General Tom Thumb, aged twelve. Lithograph by C. Baugniet, 1844.
  • Bas-reliefs of the conjoint twins called the Biddenden Maids, and five other subjects. Etching, 1775.
  • Doctor Rock, a vendor of medicines, selling his wares from a horse-drawn carriage to a crowd at Kennington common: John and Charles Wesley are preaching in the background. Engraving, 1743.