Anne-Marie Hérig, a girl with a skin abnormality; the conjoined twins Judith and Hélène; below, an infant with one central eye. Coloured etching by N.E. Lerouge after J. de Sève.

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1840
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3871i
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Previous title, replaced October 2023 : A boy with a skin disease together with the conjoined twins Judith and Hélène; below them an infant with one central eye. Coloured etching by N.E. Lerouge.

Description

On cyclopia see reprint of: 'Anomalies and curiosities of medicine', by G.M. Gould and W.L. Pyle, Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders, 1896, p.241

For Hélène and Judith see: C.J.S. Thompson, 'The mystery and lore of monsters', London 1930, pp. 71-72; L. Fiedler, 'Freaks', New York 1978, p. 201; R.D. Altick, 'The shows of London', Cambridge (Mass.) and London 1978, p.37

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[Paris] : Garnier frères (Paris : Lamoureux)

Physical description

1 print : etching, with watercolour

Lettering

Monstres. Ed. Lerouge sc.

References note

Jacques Lethève and Françoise Gardey, Inventaire du fonds français après 1800, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome quatorzième, Paris 1967. p. 108,possibly Nicolas-Edouard Lerouge no. 7 ('7 Ill. d'apr. V. Adam et avec Beaupré, Colin, Lalaisse, dans Keepsake d'histoire naturelle, texte de Buffon, chez Bazouge-Pigoreau, 1840, gr. in-8°. …')

Reference

Wellcome Collection 3871i

Reproduction note

After engravings published in G.L.L. de Buffon, Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière. Servant de suite à l'histoire naturelle de l'homme. Supplément, tome quatrième, Paris: Imprimerie royale, 1777. Top left, posterior view of Anne-Marie Hérig (b. 1770) after plate by Halbou after de Sève, Buffon pl. IV, p. 571-573. Top right, conjoined twins, ibid. pl. V, f.p. 582 (with description on pp. 578-580), after an engraving by Juste Chevillet after de Sève. Bottom: cyclops, ibid. pl. VI, pp. 580-581, after an engraving by Juste Chevillet after de Sève after a wax model by Mlle. Biheron in the possession of M. Dubourg, after the head of a female child who was born and died in October 1766

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