The Greenland Dwarfs : in Mr. Fillinham's collection there is a very curious and rare print, engraved by J.O. Berndt, minor Nurnberg, representing two dwarfs seated near the entrance of some caves on the Greenland coast ...

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[Between 1840 and 1880?]
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The Greenland Dwarfs : in Mr. Fillinham's collection there is a very curious and rare print, engraved by J.O. Berndt, minor Nurnberg, representing two dwarfs seated near the entrance of some caves on the Greenland coast ... Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Small broadside about a dwarf couple brought to Nuremburg from Davis Strait, Greenland and their child (who died and was embalmed in the Clinical Laboratory at Rastadt)

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[Between 1840 and 1880?]

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1 sheet ; 12 x 20 cm

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