Miss Atkinson, a woman with a pig's head. Coloured etching.

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137i
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According to the inscription, a lady of an aristocratic family has both the head and eating habits of a pig, her conversation is also limited to a grunt. We are informed by her attendant "she is perfect in her figure upwards to the head". Though never seen "offers of marriage have been made to her, by interested fortune hunters".

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[London] (32 Nassau Street) : W. Cleary

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1 print : etching, coloured by hand

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

Reference

Wellcome Collection 137i

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