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Hannah Thatcher, a deaf mute. Stipple engraving by J. Rogers
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Hannah Thatcher, a deaf mute. Stipple engraving by J. Rogers

Rose Emma. Drummond · 1823

CC0 — Public Domain
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Lettering: Miss Hannah Thatcher, born deaf & dumb ... Drawn by Miss R.E. Drummond. Engraved by J. Rogers. Lettering continues: "who was presented to the late Queen Charlotte on acquiring the sense of hearing & the faculty of speech under the treatment of Mr. Wright, Her Majestys surgeon aurist with whom she now resides in Princes Street, Hanover Square."

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