The true portraiture of a Roman youth, whose strang [sic] birth & life cannot sufficiently be admired .....
Hollar, Wencelaus,1607-1677.
[London? : s.n.,
1641].
Engraving by Wencelaus Hollar of a boy from Rome who had apparently existed for all of his 17 years on a diet of stones and red wine.
Engraving dated : A[nn]o 1641.
Caption title.
NLS copy is bound together with 10 other items with a collective title page in MS, enclosed in ornamental border: Les raretés de terre, & de mer, coquilles, pierres, fruicts, & autres choses monstreuses.
NLS copy has annotation at foot in 17/18th-century hand: celuy qui ne vit que de caill[oux].
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