Three human figures, each with superfluous body parts growing from their bodies. Engraving, 16--.

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[between 1600 and 1699?]
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88i
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Three human figures, each with superfluous body parts growing from their bodies. Engraving, 16--. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[Paris?], [between 1600 and 1699?]

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1 print : engraving

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Monstrum monocephalon binis corporibus. Monstrum bicorpor et monocephalon utriusq sexus. Monstru<m> monocephalon bicorpor aliud. Lettering gives reference : iconismus XVI, p. 611, figs. XXIII-XXV "MIGLO" inscribed on block on which one figure rests foot

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The Wellcome Library's manuscript of P. Boaistuau, Histoires prodigieuses, has a drawing similar to the lower part of the print

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Wellcome Collection 88i

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