Recently an anonymous and unknown portrait of two renowned conjoined twins, the Hungarian sisters Helen & Judith (1701–23), was discovered. The portrait shows striking similarities with the representation of the twins in a popular work on cultural anthropology and medicine printed in Augsburg, Germany, in 1805.
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