To the nobility and gentry : just arrived, the Child of Nature! : a most wonderful phenomema, unparalleled in the annals of history, a female child, only 11 years old, 6 feet high, weighs upwards of 13 stone, a native of Rippingdale, in the county of Lincoln : exhibited at no. 4, Pall Mall.

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view To the nobility and gentry : just arrived, the Child of Nature! : a most wonderful phenomema, unparalleled in the annals of history, a female child, only 11 years old, 6 feet high, weighs upwards of 13 stone, a native of Rippingdale, in the county of Lincoln : exhibited at no. 4, Pall Mall.

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To the nobility and gentry : just arrived, the Child of Nature! : a most wonderful phenomema, unparalleled in the annals of history, a female child, only 11 years old, 6 feet high, weighs upwards of 13 stone, a native of Rippingdale, in the county of Lincoln : exhibited at no. 4, Pall Mall. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Leaflet advertising a viewing of Ann Hardy, an an abnormally tall, overweight child, exhibited in Pall Mall, London. She died in 1815, aged 16 and was 7 ' 6" tall.

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London : [publisher not identified], [1810] (Hatton Garden : Glendinning)

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1 broadside ; 12 x 16 cm

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