"The death of Chunee, a large Asian elephant, kept at the Exeter Change menagerie; to the left; a group of soldiers and others, all carrying guns; some observing and others firing on Chunee to the right; who, roaring, breaks the bars of his wooden cage; blood pouring from many wounds and soaking the floor; the keeper, in shirtsleeves, stabbing the elephant with a bayonet; smoke obscuring the scene; behind; small iron-barred cages containg an agitated lion and tiger respectively; above hutches containing monkeys, one grasping the bars."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Destruction of the furious elephant at Exeter Exchange
Description:
Title etched below image., "Entered at Stationers Hall"--Above title., Issued with a broadside consisting of four columns of letterpress text, entitled "Interesting pariculars relating to the elephant." See Douglas., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., "Price 1s. plain - 2s. coloured.", and Watermark: J. Whatman Turkey Mill.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 6th, 1826, by J. Harrison, 56 Long Acre
Plate [153] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Vignette to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; portrait medallion of Oliver Cromwell, resting on a rock with book and dramatic mask beside and tiger with staff lying in the foreground, storm clouds with forks of lightning overhead."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
O. Cromwell, Oliver Cromwell, and Portrait of Oliver Cromwell, died 1658, aged 59
Description:
Title from text within image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate [153] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Title from item., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., and Plate from: The satirist, xiii, 473.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821., Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, 1777-1825., Francis I, Emperor of Austria, 1768-1835., Frederick William III, King of Prussia, 1770-1840., and Maximilian I Joseph, King of Bavaria, 1756-1825.
Subject (Topic):
Leipzig, Battle of, Leipzig, Germany, 1813, Tigers, Hunting, and Spears
