Bernardo Gigli, a giant. Coloured engraving.

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305i
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For sitter see C.J.S. Thompson, 'The Mystery and Lore of Monsters', London, 1930, p.162

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1 print : line engraving and etching with gouache and watercolour

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Effigie d'un huomo di gigantesca figura di soli anni 19, è di piedi 8 d'altezza, figlio di genitori d'ordinaria proporzione,si chiama Bernardo Gigli. Scala d'onzie 6 mezzo piede Veronese. The effigy of Bernardo Gigli, (an Italian) a gigantic man, only nineteen years of age, who is eight feet high, and the tallest and best proportion'd man ever seen, and whose father and mother were of a common size.

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Wellcome Collection 305i

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