On Wednesday morning last died, at the house of Mr. Richardson, Horsemonger-lane, Southwark, aged four year and nine months, George Alexander, the late celebrated and surprising spotted West Indian ...

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[1813]
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On Wednesday morning last died, at the house of Mr. Richardson, Horsemonger-lane, Southwark, aged four year and nine months, George Alexander, the late celebrated and surprising spotted West Indian ... Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Newspaper (3 Februuary 1813) cutting about the life and death of the child George Alexander Gratton, born in St. Vincent in 1808 (?) with a pigmentation disorder of the skin. Brought to England he was exhibited but died in 1813 "with a swelling in the jaw".

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[1813]

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1 sheet ; 6 x 9 cm

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