Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

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--?]
Credit line
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).
Description
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcut) ; 18 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Classification
Department