Wybrand Lolkes, the Dutch Dwarf, 1733-1790s, and his wife. Watchmaker who exhibited himself at fairs with his wife in Holland, and for one season in England in 1790 at Philip Astley’s Amphitheatre, Westminster Bridge. 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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