1-627-502 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Calligraphic exhibition bill of Matthew Buchinger, 'Dwarf of Nurnburg', 1717, (1840). Facsimile of a bill advertising the talents of Matthias (or Matthew) Buchinger sent to Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, in 1717. Buchinger was born with no hands or feet, but was a gifted artist, magician and performer. Illustration from Historical and Literary Curiosities consisting of Fac-similies of Original Documents, by Charles John Smith, (Henry G Bohn, London, 1840).