The Ricky Jay Collection
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Lot 188
[ALBINO] HERVEY, Miss. The Beautiful Nyctalops. [London]: J...
Estimate: $800 - $1,200
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[ALBINO] HERVEY, Miss. The Beautiful Nyctalops. [London]: John Raphael Smith, ca. 1800. Stipple engraving attractively hand-colored and being 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. Staining in margins from removal from frame. See Exemplars, p. 235; BM Catalog 1875,0814.1193.
