A Living skeleton!! Authentic memoir of that singular human prodigy Claude Seurat, denominated the Living Skeleton, who arrived in London from the Continent in July, 1825. In which is contained a circumstantial detail of his person ... together with an account of his manners, habits, etc. ... / Illustrated ... by Robert Cruikshank.
A cheap London pamphlet of 1825, published by John Fairburn, recounting the exhibition of Claude-Ambroise Seurat, a severely emaciated Frenchman shown for money as the "Living Skeleton," with plates by Robert Cruikshank. Front, side and back figure studies in fine outline, some hand-coloured with a red loincloth, plus a crowded woodcut tavern scene of caricatured drinkers.
