Announcement of Miss Beffin's Skills
On loan to The Met
This work of art is currently on loan to the museum.Born without arms, Sarah Beffin, like Miss Honeywell, could cut and write with her mouth and was a great and peculiar attraction at the London fairgrounds. As Ricky Jay notes, this unusually large broadside was produced for her appearance at the Bartholomew Fair, a preeminent summer fair held around Saint Bartholomew’s Day (August 24) every year in London from the twelfth to the nineteenth century.
Artwork Details
- Title: Announcement of Miss Beffin's Skills
- Printer: T. Romneye, London
- Medium: Letterpress
- Dimensions: Sheet: 32 1/2 in. × 23 in. (82.6 × 58.4 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Collection of Ricky Jay
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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