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  • Unequalled novelty from Westminster Hall, London, will arrive in this town on the of this month : The public of this town and its vicinity are most respectfully informed that a wonderful display of the works of nature will be exhibited here for a short time only. Mr. J. Chipperfield begs to inform the public that he has entered into an expensive engagement with Mr. Tipney the Skeleton Man Alive, born in the year 1841, and weighs only forty-nine pounds!.
  • [Undated, illustrated handbill (February 1867?) advertising an appearance at Westminster Hall by Robert Tipney, Mr. Chipperfield's Living Skeleton, 26 years old and weighing 49 pounds. ].
  • Queen Victoria, seated in an armchair by an open fire, day-dreaming about illustrious men of her reign. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 1887.
  • An Italian bandit offering a French gentleman the piebald one of three 'hottentot' (steatopygous) women; representing Louis Sambon and Raphael Blanchard at an international medical congress. Halftone after M.S. Orr, 1913.
  • An Italian bandit offering a French gentleman the piebald one of three 'hottentot' (steatopygous) women; representing Louis Sambon and Raphael Blanchard at an international medical congress. Halftone after M.S. Orr, 1913.
  • Some Fellows of the Royal Society: with a key to the identities of the sitters. Wood engraving, 1889.
  • Buildings and surgeons and physicians of King's College Hospital, London. Coloured lithograph by Beynon & Company after H. Hale.