Thomas Inglefield, an artist born without limbs. Etching by S. Ireland, 1787, after F. Grose.

  • Grose, Francis, 1731?-1791.
Date:
28 May 1787
Reference:
354i
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[London] : T. Inglefield, 28 May 1787.

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1 print : etching ; platemark 23.9 x 16.9cm

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The portrait of Thomas Inglefield, born Decr. 18; 1789 at Hook in Hampshire, without hands or legs. ... Drawn, etched, and given by F. Grose & S. Ireland The lettering continues to describe the sitter

References note

David M. Turner, Disability in eighteenth-century England: imagining physical impairment, New York and Abingdon 2012, pp. 98-102

Reference

Wellcome Collection 354i

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