Miss Hervey "The Nyctalops"

Engraving. Beautiful color English engraving of Miss Hervey, an Albino. Stipple engraving by John Raphael Smith, ca. 1800. A striking three-quarter length seated portrait of the night blind albiness in a black dress with ruffled collar, her eyes bright red, and with the engraved caption advertising her appearance at Brookes’s Original Menagerie, No. 242 Piccadilly.

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