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Concept

Horns, Cutaneous

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  • Jane Shore (mistress of King Edward IV), Henry Hastings (Dorset landowner and sportsman), Jedediah Buxton (mental calculator), and Mary Davis (with horns). Etching, 1808.
  • François Trouille, a man with a horn growing from his head. Etching, 1814.
  • Elizabeth French, a woman with horns. Pen drawing.
  • A man with a cutaneous horn-like growth on the scalp. Gouache, 18--, after Lam Qua, ca. 1837.
  • Mary Davis, a woman with horns. Line engraving.
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Catalogue

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    Jane Shore (mistress of King Edward IV), Henry Hastings (Dorset landowner and sportsman), Jedediah Buxton (mental calculator), and Mary Davis (with horns). Etching, 1808.

    | Date: 1 June 1808 | Reference: 2350i
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    Bemerkungen über einen monstreusen Canarien-Vogel : aus dessen Unterkiefer ein lang gewundenes Horn gewachsen ; an den Herrn Grafen von Büffon ... mit einer ausgemahlten Kupfertafel.

    Schultz, Ernst Christoph. | Date: [1780]
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    Mary Davis, a woman with horns, aged 74. Engraving, 1792.

    | Date: 10 September 1792 | Reference: 244i
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    A man with a cutaneous horn-like growth on the scalp. Gouache, 18--, after Lam Qua, ca. 1837.

    Lam, Qua. | Date: [1837?] | Reference: 679515i
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    Elizabeth French, a woman with horns. Pen drawing.

    | Reference: 297i
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