Joseph Merrick
id:
joseph-merrick-203-14533844
title:
Joseph Merrick
text:
Joseph Carey Merrick, often erroneously called John Merrick, was an English artist known for his severe physical deformities. He was first exhibited at a freak show under the stage name "the Elephant Man", and then went to live at the London Hospital, in Whitechapel, after meeting Sir Frederick Treves, subsequently becoming well known in London society. Merrick was born in Leicester and began to develop abnormally before the age of five. His mother died when he was eleven, and his father soon re
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Man with severe deformities (1862–1890)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Merrick
date created:
2002-12-14T04:09:06Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T22:56:53Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q215762","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q215762"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/Joseph_Merrick_carte_de_visite_photo%2C_c._1889.jpg","width":960,"height":1600}
fields total:
13
integrity:
16