"This is to acquaint all gentlemen and ladies, that the Living Colossus, or Wonderful Giant (who has been these five weeks very dangerously ill of a fever, which has occasioned a report of his death) is now so well recovered as to be able to shew himself ... at the sign of the Mansion House and French Horn, between Poultry and the Royal Exchange ...

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[1742?]
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"This is to acquaint all gentlemen and ladies, that the Living Colossus, or Wonderful Giant (who has been these five weeks very dangerously ill of a fever, which has occasioned a report of his death) is now so well recovered as to be able to shew himself ... at the sign of the Mansion House and French Horn, between Poultry and the Royal Exchange ... Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Leaflet advertising appearances of Cajanus, the Swedish giant in the City of London. He was apparently actually Finnish.

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[1742?]

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1 sheet ; 15 x 23 cm

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