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Margaret Finch Queen of the Gypsies at Norwood.
Drawn from the Life by Ino. Straeke 1739. Engrav'd by Hen. Roberts 1742.
Engraving. 240 x 230mm. Trimmed inside plate mark along bottom edge. Stuck on scrap sheet.
The Norwood gypsies lived in the area now known as Gypsy Hill. So famous were they that a pantomime called 'The Norwood Gypsies' was staged in Covent Garden in 1777. The most famous of the gypsies was Margaret Finch [d.1740]. A report published a few years after her death states that the 'oddness of her figure and ye fame of her fortune-telling drew a vast concourse of spectators from ye highest rank of quality, even to those of ye lower class of life'. She lived in a conical hut built of branches, at the base of an ancient tree, and it was there that great numbers of people visited her.
[Ref: 5760] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)
Drawn from the Life by Ino. Straeke 1739. Engrav'd by Hen. Roberts 1742.
Engraving. 240 x 230mm. Trimmed inside plate mark along bottom edge. Stuck on scrap sheet.
The Norwood gypsies lived in the area now known as Gypsy Hill. So famous were they that a pantomime called 'The Norwood Gypsies' was staged in Covent Garden in 1777. The most famous of the gypsies was Margaret Finch [d.1740]. A report published a few years after her death states that the 'oddness of her figure and ye fame of her fortune-telling drew a vast concourse of spectators from ye highest rank of quality, even to those of ye lower class of life'. She lived in a conical hut built of branches, at the base of an ancient tree, and it was there that great numbers of people visited her.
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Margaret Finch Queen of the Norwood Gypsies, Died 1740, Aged 108 Years.
Jack Sharp sculp.t [after John Straeho].
[n.d., c.1742.]
Engraving. Sheet 255 x 210mm (10 x 8¼"). Trimmed within plate, some damage & loss in edges, mounted on album paper.
The Norwood gypsies lived in the area now known as Gypsy Hill. So famous were they that a pantomime called 'The Norwood Gypsies' was staged in Covent Garden in 1777. The most famous of the gypsies was fortune-teller Margaret Finch (d.1740). A report published a few years after her death states that the 'oddness of her figure and ye fame of her fortune-telling drew a vast concourse of spectators from ye highest rank of quality, even to those of ye lower class of life'. She lived in a conical hut built of branches, at the base of an ancient tree, and it was there that great numbers of people visited her.
[Ref: 60891] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)
Jack Sharp sculp.t [after John Straeho].
[n.d., c.1742.]
Engraving. Sheet 255 x 210mm (10 x 8¼"). Trimmed within plate, some damage & loss in edges, mounted on album paper.
The Norwood gypsies lived in the area now known as Gypsy Hill. So famous were they that a pantomime called 'The Norwood Gypsies' was staged in Covent Garden in 1777. The most famous of the gypsies was fortune-teller Margaret Finch (d.1740). A report published a few years after her death states that the 'oddness of her figure and ye fame of her fortune-telling drew a vast concourse of spectators from ye highest rank of quality, even to those of ye lower class of life'. She lived in a conical hut built of branches, at the base of an ancient tree, and it was there that great numbers of people visited her.
[Ref: 60891] £90.00 (£108.00 incl.VAT)