Barbara Urslerin, the hairy-faced woman, 1629-1668. Famous bearded lady exhibited in Europe and London by her husband Michael Vanbeck. After a portrait by Richard Gaywood in 1658. 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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