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228 kirby’s wonderful museum.
she had shown towards the unhappy persons, which may
soon appear more fully in a proper place.
SOME ACCOUNT OF
NANNETTE STOCKER, 33 inches,
And JOHN HAUPTMAN, 36 inches in height,
EXHIBITED AT NO. 22, NEW BOND-STREET, IN MARCH 1815.
These little personages have drawn together great crowds
of the fashionable world, to witness not only their diminu-
tive size, but their wonderful performances, Nannette on the
piano-forte, and Mr. Hauptman on the violin.
The phenomenon Nannette Stocker is at this time 33years
of age, 33 inches high, and weighs exactly 33 pounds; she
was born at Kammer, the lordship of Monsieur the Count of
Kevenhuler, in Upper Austria, near Bavaria; her mother
bore her ten months and twenty-four days before her birth.
It is remarkable that this girl was larger at the delivery than
children usually are. Since the age of four years her stature
has been fixed at thirty- three inches ; her mother was five
feet three inches high, and her brother, who is two years
younger, is also of a proper growth.
She is perfectly formed in every respect, and for fifteen
years, to the astonishment of every one, her growth was
scarcely perceivable, although she had always a good appe-
tite, and had never experienced any illness.
In consequence of her continuing so diminutive, her guar-
dian, who had adopted her at the death of her mother, deter-
mined to show her to the public; he commenced travelling
with her on the 27th of October, 1797, and soon after-
wards arrived at Ratisbon, where Nannette was particularly
admired ; from thence our little heroine visited nearly
the whole of the Continent of Europe, surprising all that
saw her.
she had shown towards the unhappy persons, which may
soon appear more fully in a proper place.
SOME ACCOUNT OF
NANNETTE STOCKER, 33 inches,
And JOHN HAUPTMAN, 36 inches in height,
EXHIBITED AT NO. 22, NEW BOND-STREET, IN MARCH 1815.
These little personages have drawn together great crowds
of the fashionable world, to witness not only their diminu-
tive size, but their wonderful performances, Nannette on the
piano-forte, and Mr. Hauptman on the violin.
The phenomenon Nannette Stocker is at this time 33years
of age, 33 inches high, and weighs exactly 33 pounds; she
was born at Kammer, the lordship of Monsieur the Count of
Kevenhuler, in Upper Austria, near Bavaria; her mother
bore her ten months and twenty-four days before her birth.
It is remarkable that this girl was larger at the delivery than
children usually are. Since the age of four years her stature
has been fixed at thirty- three inches ; her mother was five
feet three inches high, and her brother, who is two years
younger, is also of a proper growth.
She is perfectly formed in every respect, and for fifteen
years, to the astonishment of every one, her growth was
scarcely perceivable, although she had always a good appe-
tite, and had never experienced any illness.
In consequence of her continuing so diminutive, her guar-
dian, who had adopted her at the death of her mother, deter-
mined to show her to the public; he commenced travelling
with her on the 27th of October, 1797, and soon after-
wards arrived at Ratisbon, where Nannette was particularly
admired ; from thence our little heroine visited nearly
the whole of the Continent of Europe, surprising all that
saw her.