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The pig-faced lady of Manchester Square : drawn and published by her late attendant, while at dinner.

Accession number
PML 146639, p. 486c
Published
[London] : Jones & Co. Printers, Great New Street, [181-]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Text in two columns: The above print is descriptive of a female prodigy which has existence at the West End of the town, in the person of a young lady of the highest rank and expectations ...
Hand colored etching shows a young woman with the head of a pig seated at a table and eating from a small trough; at left, a maid servant stands holding another trough full of food in her hands.
Broadside folded, inlaid, and inserted as the third plate (i.e. plate "c") after p. 486 in v. 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of Henry Morley's Memoirs of Batholomew Fair (London : Chapman and Hall, 1859), see PML 146639.
Description
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (hand col. etching) ; 41 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Note in pencil at left: Miss Vincent founder of the Vincent Hospital Dublin (absolute myth & deliberate lies).
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Classification
Department