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A boy with a skin disease together with the conjoined twins Judith and Hélène; below them an infant with one central eye. Coloured etching by N.E. Lerouge.
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Credit: A boy with a skin disease together with the conjoined twins Judith and Hélène; below them an infant with one central eye. Coloured etching by N.E. Lerouge. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark
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Description
On cyclopia see reprint of: 'Anomalies and curiosities of medicine', by G.M. Gould and W.L. Pyle, Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, 1896, p.241
For Hélène and Judith see: C.J.S. Thompson, 'The mystery and lore of monsters', London 1930, pp. 71-72; L. Fiedler, 'Freaks', New York 1978, p. 201; R.D. Altick, 'The shows of London', Cambridge (Mass.) and London 1978, p.37
Publication/Creation
[Place of publication not identified] : Garnier frères (Paris : Lamoureux)
Physical description
1 print : etching, with watercolour
Contributors
Lettering
Monstres. Ed. Lerouge sc
Reference
Wellcome Library no. 3871i
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- French
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