Anne-Marie Hérig, a girl with a skin abnormality; the conjoined twins Judith and Hélène; below, an infant with one central eye. Coloured etching by N.E. Lerouge after J. de Sève.

Previous title, replaced October 2023 : 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.

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

[Paris] : Garnier frères (Paris : Lamoureux)

1 print : etching, with watercolour

Monstres. Ed. Lerouge sc.

Jacques Lethève and Françoise Gardey, Inventaire du fonds français après 1800, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome quatorzième, Paris 1967. p. 108,possibly Nicolas-Edouard Lerouge no. 7 ('7 Ill. d'apr. V. Adam et avec Beaupré, Colin, Lalaisse, dans Keepsake d'histoire naturelle, texte de Buffon, chez Bazouge-Pigoreau, 1840, gr. in-8°. …')

Wellcome Collection 3871i

After engravings published in G.L.L. de Buffon, Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière. Servant de suite à l'histoire naturelle de l'homme. Supplément, tome quatrième, Paris: Imprimerie royale, 1777. Top left, posterior view of Anne-Marie Hérig (b. 1770) after plate by Halbou after de Sève, Buffon pl. IV, p. 571-573. Top right, conjoined twins, ibid. pl. V, f.p. 582 (with description on pp. 578-580), after an engraving by Juste Chevillet after de Sève. Bottom: cyclops, ibid. pl. VI, pp. 580-581, after an engraving by Juste Chevillet after de Sève after a wax model by Mlle. Biheron in the possession of M. Dubourg, after the head of a female child who was born and died in October 1766