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ATKINSON, Mrs. THE WONDERFUL MRS. ATKINSON. [London: Thomas Palser], ca. 1815. Delicately hand-colored etching after a drawing by George Moreland, being a full-length image of the pig-faced Irish woman who, according to the caption, was, “…married to a gentleman in Ireland of that name, having 20,000 [pound] fortune. She is fed out of a silver hog-trough and is called to her meals by Pig-Pig-Pig.” Archivally framed to 17½ × 14½". Margins trimmed away (eliminating some text). Not examined out of frame. Exhibited as part of Ricky Jay’s Extraordinary Exhibitions, Hammer Museum (Los Angeles). Original museum tags to frame verso.