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  • Extraordinary natural curiosity : a living skeleton.
  • [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. ].
  • Anatomie vivante, or, the Living Skeleton.
  • [Undated handbill (1835?) advertising 'L'anatomie vivante, or Living Skeleton" at the York Hotel, William Square (Liverpool?)].
  • 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!.
  • [Newspaper cutting, "A soft snap" (in the series 'snap-shots') featuring a cartoon and a Living Skeleton and a Wild Man of Borneo talking about a Two-Headed Man. ].
  • [Newspaper cutting, "A soft snap" (in the series 'snap-shots') featuring a cartoon and a Living Skeleton and a Wild Man of Borneo talking about a Two-Headed Man. ].
  • [Undated handbill (1835?) advertising 'L'anatomie vivante, or Living Skeleton" at the York Hotel, William Square (Liverpool?)].
  • [Newspaper cutting, "Easily rattled" featuring a cartoon of a man talking to a Living Skeleton. ].
  • A changeling child : to be seen next door to the Black Raven, in West Smithfield, during the time of the FAIR, being a living skeleton, taken by a Venetian Galley, from a Turkish vessel in the archipelago ...
  • Extraordinary novelty! Another living skeleton!! : and the last night of Cannon & Crawley ... : Monday, August 15th, 1825 ... / Royal Coburg Theatre.
  • The living skeleton : drawn from nature / by Robert Crukshank.
  • Barry's living wonders will exhibit here : no.1 & 2 Burnett's Road, near the Agricultural Hall, during the Cattle Show next week : the greatest living wonder ever seen : the double man : half man & half woman alive!.
  • [Newspaper cutting, "Easily rattled" featuring a cartoon of a man talking to a Living Skeleton. ].
  • Boniface : there have been several "living skeletons" exhibited in England from time to time. The most famous, as the first of the kind, was Claude Seurat, a Frenchman, who was shown in London during the summer of the year 1825.
  • Anatomie vivante, or, the Living Skeleton.
  • Extraordinary natural curiosity : a living skeleton.