Joseph Clark, the famous posture master, died 1696. London contortionist capable of dislocating bones and grimacing to pass as a deformed person. 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.

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