Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
Ca. 1825
Primary Source Reference:
Anne Newport Royall, Sketches of the History, Life, and Manners, in the United States (New Haven, 1826), pp. 216-217
Notes:
About 1825 Anne Newport Royall saw in the Peale Museum the shoe and silk stocking of O'Brien the Giant (Charles Byrne) and noted, "The shoe was enormous, and what made it appear more so, near by it lay the shoe of Simon Pap, the dwarf, who was but twenty-eight inches high. His shoe was three inches and one half in length." Anne Newport Royall, Sketches of the History, Life, and Manners, in the United States (New Haven, 1826), pp. 216-217
Simon Paap (1789-1828) was born in Holland and arrived in England in 1815. Edward J. Wood, Giants and Dwarfs (London, 1868), pp. 380-383
See also the entry "Shoe, and Silk stocking of Obrian the Irish Giant 8 feet 7-1/2 high."
