‘A refined image of disability’
9th June 2017
The full caption reads: ‘ ‘This extraordinary young Man was born Dec.r 18. 1769, at Hook, in Hampshire, without Arms or Legs, as here delineated, occasioned as his Mother supposes by a Fright she suffered when pregnant with him. Notwithstanding these Disadvantages he has by industry acquired the Arts of Writing & Drawing, holding his Pencil […]
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