Miss Harvey, the Beautiful Albiness, Regency era

Miss Harvey, albino woman with silk hair perfectly white and pink eyes. She was exhibited at Brookes Original Menagerie in 1800, and at Whigley's Royal Promenade Rooms, Spring Gardens (Charing Cross) in 1810. The Beautiful Albiness, exhibited in London. Lithograph after a stipple engraving by Robert Cooper from Henry Wilson and James Caulfield's Book of Wonderful Characters, Memoirs and Anecdotes, of Remarkable and Eccentric Persons in all ages and countries, John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly, London, 1869

19th Century Albino Book Of Wonderful Characters Eccentric Exhibit Extraordinary Freakshow Henry Wilson James Caulfield John Camden Hotten Memoirs And Anecdotes Oddity Piccadilly Remarkable Robert Cooper Stipple Engraving

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