Author: Anonymous
Title: Christian Davis, Otherwise Mother Ross
Description: London, mid-18th cent. Engraving by an unknown artist of a woman reknowned for having masqueraded as a man to serve in the Royal Military. Image: 176 x 122 mm. Sheet: 306 x 251 mm. Pasted down. From a periodical of remarkable characters. Manuscript description in a contemporary hand on lower margin. From scrapbook compiled by noted 19th c. British collector T. Purland in 1845. .

Keywords: Eccentrics, Freaks, Criminals


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