An exhibition of wild beasts mankind is fond of looking at their own likenesses. [graphic]

"Satire comparing people with animals: a range of spectators, including a clergyman, a coachman, a farmworker, a macaroni, a well-dressed old woman, a fat Londoner and his wife, in a menagerie where are displayed "Horns of a Mexican Deer", a crocodile or alligator, a whalebone, snake and narwhal tusk, a stuffed "Dromedary" and an "American Buffalo", and, in cages, "Silken Monkies", "The Indian Hog", "Tyger", "The Sloth", "The Syrian Goat" and "The Iceland Ram"; the macaroni looks through his eye-glass at one of the monkeys which is dressed, like him, in a red coat and wig with a large queue."--British Museum online catalogue