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Cajanus, Daniel, 1703-1749.

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  • There is a young colossus to be seen at the sign of the French Horn and Mansion House, opposite the Mansion House : being a boy fifteen years of age, seven feet high, and every way proportioned ...
  • "This is to acquaint all gentlemen and ladies, that the Living Colossus, or Wonderful Giant (who has been these five weeks very dangerously ill of a fever, which has occasioned a report of his death) is now so well recovered as to be able to shew himself ... at the sign of the Mansion House and French Horn, between Poultry and the Royal Exchange ...
  • There is a young colossus to be seen at the sign of the French Horn and Mansion House, opposite the Mansion House : being a boy fifteen years of age, seven feet high, and every way proportioned ...
  • The menagerie of Blaauw Jan (Jan Berentsz Westerhof) in Amsterdam: animals including ostriches, monkeys, lions and peacocks are shown in and around a large central cage, surrounded by people drinking at tables. Etching, 1751.

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    "This is to acquaint all gentlemen and ladies, that the Living Colossus, or Wonderful Giant (who has been these five weeks very dangerously ill of a fever, which has occasioned a report of his death) is now so well recovered as to be able to shew himself ... at the sign of the Mansion House and French Horn, between Poultry and the Royal Exchange ...

    | Date: [1742?]
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    Human curiosities and the Royal Society, 1699-1751 / John H. Appleby.

    Appleby, John H. | Date: 1996
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    There is a young colossus to be seen at the sign of the French Horn and Mansion House, opposite the Mansion House : being a boy fifteen years of age, seven feet high, and every way proportioned ...

    | Date: [1745?]
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    The menagerie of Blaauw Jan (Jan Berentsz Westerhof) in Amsterdam: animals including ostriches, monkeys, lions and peacocks are shown in and around a large central cage, surrounded by people drinking at tables. Etching, 1751.

    | Date: 1751 | Reference: 579186i

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