Human or animal skin condition
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Images from the collections
![[Undated handbill (December 1881) for the Royal Aquarium advertising Farini's (William Hunt) wonder of wonders, the tattooed Captain Georges Costentenus and the Leopard Boy].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28481148_0001.jp2/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![[Undated handbill (December 1881) for the Royal Aquarium advertising Farini's (William Hunt) wonder of wonders, the tattooed Captain Georges Costentenus and the Leopard Boy].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28481148_0002.jp2/full/282%2C/0/default.jpg)
![[Newspaper cutting titled: New wonders at the Royal Aquarium (November 1881?) in Mr. Farini's (William Hunt) Gallery. These are Captain Georges Costentenus and the Leopard Boy].](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28480454_0001.jp2/full/160%2C/0/default.jpg)
Works from the collections
19 works
- Ephemera
- Online
The cabinet of curiosities, or wonders of the world displayed. No.5, The Spotted Negro Boy.
Date: [between 1820 and 1860?]
- Ephemera
- Online
251, Regent-St. nearly opposite the Argyll Rooms : to be seen daily, the beautiful Giraffe Spotted Girl ... Miss Fabian is most curiously spotted, equal to the giraffe ...
Date: [1830?]
- Ephemera
- Online
15 Poultry : for a short time only: to be seen alive, the beautiful Giraffe Girl, with a fine cosmoramic view of the Thames Tunnel.
Date: [1830?]- Books
Pigmented atrophy of the mucous membrane of the small intestine of malarial origin / by Leonard Rogers.
Leonard RogersDate: 1903
- Ephemera
- Online
Wonderful spotted boy : seventeen months old from the Caribbee islands, in the West Indies : to be seen at no.41, Strand, near Messrs. Couts & Co. bankers : he is the progeny of negroes, on whose body is a display of the works of God, being beautifully covered by a diversity of spots of the most beautiful black and transparent brown and white.
Date: [1810?]