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Eccentrics and eccentricities

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  • An itinerant poor saleswoman selling hearthstones. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • An itinerant salesman with artificial arms selling the bootlaces that hang from the hooks of his hands. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1816.
  • An itinerant salesman selling hot peas from the pot he carries under his right arm. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1815.
  • Matthew Robinson-Morris, second Baron Rokeby, an eccentric. Stipple engraving by R. Page.
  • Le Chevalier Michel Descazeaux du Halley, an eccentric. Drawing.
  • Jane Shore (mistress of King Edward IV), Henry Hastings (Dorset landowner and sportsman), Jedediah Buxton (mental calculator), and Mary Davis (with horns). Etching, 1808.
  • Baron D'Aguilar, an eccentric merchant farmer with starving animals, and farm buildings in the background. Stipple engraving.
  • Henry Dimsdale, an eccentric who calls himself 'Mayor of Garratt'. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper.
  • Filippo Giuliani, a 'water-drinker'. Line engraving, 1680.
  • Le Chevalier Michel Descazeaux du Halley, an eccentric. Stipple engraving by R. Cooper, 1821.
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    A man with an artificial arm selling live haddock from a basket he suspends from the hook on his left shoulder. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1815.

    John Thomas Smith | Date: 31 December 1815 | Reference: 43985i
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    John Brown, walking. Etching by J. Kay, 1819.

    John Kay | Date: 1819 | Reference: 194i
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    An itinerant salesman selling hot peas from the pot he carries under his right arm. Etching by J.T. Smith, 1815.

    John Thomas Smith | Date: 31 December 1815 | Reference: 43983i
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    A beggar woman selling wares from a basket in her right hand. Etching by J. T. Smith, 1815.

    John Thomas Smith | Date: 31 December 1815 | Reference: 43965i
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    Miss Whitehead, an eccentric, known as the 'Bank Nun'. Coloured lithograph by G.L. Lee.

    | Reference: 1967i
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