"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
Description:
Title from item. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark at bottom.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map and Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London. Published as the act directs
"Satire on fashion: an elderly couple and a child visiting a menagerie are amused to see a monkey seizing the long queue of a macaroni while it seizes its own tail. The monkey is chained as are a bear and a wolf; a peacock and an eagle (?) are in cages."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Macaroni in distress
Description:
Title from item. and Numbered '366' in lower right of plate.
Publisher:
Printed for R. Sayer and J. Bennett, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the act directs
Subject (Topic):
Dandies, British, Wigs, Zoo animals, Monkeys, Bears, and Peacocks
Title from text below image., Date of publication based on manuscript annotation in pencil above title: Decr. 1837., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed with probable loss of imprint.
"A giraffe in a field on a riverbank, lead by a man, wearing a top hat, coat and waistcoat; two cattle resting behind at left."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
This portrait of the giraffe accompanied by his present keeper taking an airing at Cumberland Lodge ...
Description:
Title from dedication beneath image. and Information about the giraffe is printed below dedication, under the heading "Dimensions of the giraffe." Included are thirteen physical measurements beginning with "10 ft. 8 in. from the top of the head to the bottom of the hoof" and ending with "7 1/2 in. length of the hoofs." The final piece of information notes the "Age of the giraffe, two years."
Publisher:
Pubd. by the artist, 52 Gt. Portland St. and Printed by C. Hullmandel
A scene of pandemonia on a public street as animals escape from an Animal Kingdom as people flee the exotic animals -- kangaroos, bulls, elephants, lions, etc. -- including a cart driven by a monkey and pulled by a bull
Alternative Title:
Uproar on Change, or, A trip from Exeter to Charing Cross
Description:
Title and imprint from manuscript annotations on mount., Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with probable loss of text from bottom edge., Possibly an imperfect impression of a print entiled "An uproar on Change, or, A trip from Exeter to Charing Cross," which was published in 1828 by Edward McLean. Cf. No. 15603 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 11., and Mounted on sheet 24.9 x 36.1 cm.
Volume 2, opposite page 153. Some account of London.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title devised by curator., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Probably drawn after a print entitled "Polito's Royal Menagerie, Exeter 'Change, Strand", published in 1811 as plate 2 in volume 8 of Ackermann's The repository of arts, literature, fashions, &c.; see Yale Center for British Art call no.: L 212 (8vo)., and Mounted opposite page 153 in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Pennant, T. Some account of London. London : Printed for R. Faulder, 1793.
