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The house of Joan

The longueurs of hospital stays and enforced inactivity were the spur to Joan’s precise tailoring skills and flamboyant creations, all to the benefit of her fashion-loving sisters.

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Six scenes narrating the fate of a cork leg, the invention of a Dutch artist. Etching by Joe Lisle.
Lisle, Joe.Reference: 44051i
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An Elegy on the much lamented death of Matthew Buckinger, the famous little-man (without arms or legs) who departed this life at Cork, Sept. 28. 1722
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By the Lords Justices and Council of Ireland, a proclamation, offering a reward for apprehending Teige alias Timothy Croneen, for the murder of Mr. Andrew St. Leger, late of Ballyvolane in the county of Corke, and Jane St. Leger his wife, and for the robb
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A tramp exclaiming to another tramp that his severed legs have become whole again as a result of taking J. Morison's vegetable pills. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.
Grant, C. J. (Charles Jameson), active 1830-1852.Date: 10 January 1834Reference: 11854i
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Great news from the west of England : being a true account of two young persons lately bewitch'd in the town of Beckenton in Somerset-shire, shewing the sad condition they are in by vomiting or throwing out of their bodies the abundance of pins, nails, pewter, brass, lead, iron, and tin to the admiration of all beholders, and of the old witch being carryed several times to a great river, into which her legs being tied, she was thrice thrown in, but each time she swam like a cork, afterwards by order from a justice of the peace she was search'd by a jury of women and such signs and marks being found about her, positive oath was given in against her so that she is committed to jayl until the next assizes.
Date: 1689

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Six scenes narrating the fate of a cork leg, the invention of a Dutch artist. Etching by Joe Lisle.

An Elegy on the much lamented death of Matthew Buckinger, the famous little-man (without arms or legs) who departed this life at Cork, Sept. 28. 1722

By the Lords Justices and Council of Ireland, a proclamation, offering a reward for apprehending Teige alias Timothy Croneen, for the murder of Mr. Andrew St. Leger, late of Ballyvolane in the county of Corke, and Jane St. Leger his wife, and for the robb

A tramp exclaiming to another tramp that his severed legs have become whole again as a result of taking J. Morison's vegetable pills. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.