Library Collections: Visual Still: Enlargement

An illustration depicting Tom Thumb fending off a small dog with his cane, to the apparent amusement of an adult crowd in a parlor.



Visual Still Information

Title: Fight Between Gen. Tom Thumb And the Queen's Poodle
From: Sketch Of The Life, Personal Appearance, Character And Manners Of Charles S. Stratton, The Man In Miniature, Known As General Tom Thumb, And His Wife, Lavinia Warren Stratton; Including The History Of Their Courtship And Marriage, With Some Account Of Remarkable Dwarfs, Giants, & Other Human Phenomena, Of Ancient And Modern Times, And Songs Given At Their Public Levees
Original caption: "Running under the circumstances, was an offense sufficiently heinous to excite the indignation of the Queen's favorite poodle-dog, and he vented his displeasure by barking so sharply as to startle the General from his propriety."
Creator:  Whitney, 8 Jocelyn St. (engraver)
Date: 1863
Publisher: Press of Wynkoop & Hallenbeck, New York
Source: Robert Bogdan Collection