Title

Thomas Hills Everett, Aged Eleven Months', 1822.

Caption

'Thomas Hills Everett, Aged Eleven Months', 1822. Portrait of Mrs Everitt and her son Thomas, 'the enormous baby'. Thomas was born at Enfield, Middlesex, in 1779, and was apparently normal sized at birth. He became a 'gigantic infant', however, and his father decided to exhibit him at Mr Owen's, a confectioner at 66 Cornhill in London, daily from 11 am until 4 pm. He died in 1780, at a time when more than one in five babies died before reaching their first birthday. From "Wonderful Characters: Comprising Memoirs and Anecdotes of the Most Remarkable Persons of Every Age and Nation", Vol. III, by Henry Wilson. [J. Robins and Co. Albion Press, London, 1821]

Date

1822

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19F21_292

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

62,5Mb (2,3Mb) / 12,5in x 19,4in / 3748 x 5833 (300dpi)

Keywords

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