The beautiful spotted negro boy : during the fair, in his travelling pavilion. Will be exhibited the truly wonderful and beautiful spotted negro boy, from the Carribee Islands, in the West Indies, aged three years and a half.

Broadside advertising the exhibition of George Alexander Gratton (also Grattan), a Black child afflicted with vitiligo who had been born on the island of St. Vincent in 1808 and subsequently transported to England at the age of approximately 15 months, where he was sold to the showman and London theater owner John Richardson who exhibited him until the time of his death in February of 1813.
With a wood engraved illustration of the "spotted boy" (George Alexander Gratton) standing 3/4 to the left and holding a bow and arrow.
Broadside inlaid and inserted facing p. 483 into v. 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of Henry Morley's Memoirs of Batholomew Fair (London : Chapman and Hall, 1859), see PML 146639.