Henry Constantine Jennings, eccentric antiquarian, 1731-1818. Assembled a large cabinet of curiosities, including the Dog of Alcibiades, with funds from slave plantations in the West Indies. The Remarkable Virtuoso. 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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