the class-o-matic

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Drawings of a woman from Portrush, Ireland, 'seven foot high'; a small person dressed en regalia, and a very hairy hairy hairy person, who were all seen, and then drawn by James Paris in London in 1696. The titles of the works, is Drawings of Human Prodigies.

It's hard to know what people thought of each other in the early 17th.cent. and for our purposes, more importantly how they expressed these feelings in images. (this is at least somewhat discernable)

While these drawings clearly exploit the "uniqueness" of the subjects, they are not critical or distant, and seem a rather whimsical depiction of a remarkable encounter. The text is full of admiration and awe. I guess political correctness had not yet reared its ugly head.