By permission. This is to give notice to all gentlemen, ladies and others, that at the George on Windmill-Hill, the upper end of Moore-Fields. : There is now to be seen a man, that was taken wild in the woods in the remotest parts of Ireland, known by the name of the Hairy Man ...

Accession number: 
PML 145850.204
Published: 
[England : s.n., ca. 17--?]
Description: 
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcut) ; 18 cm
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

Letterpress handbill illustrated at head with a woodcut (67 x 44 mm) showing the figure of a "wild man", covered with hair, wearing a belt of leaves, and holding a club.
Mounted as item 204 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).

Provenance: 
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Department: