A menagerie of animals with the heads of politicians. Coloured etching by "Aqua Fortis" after W.H. Brooke after "Satirist", 1812.

  • Brooke, William Henry, 1772-1860.
Date:
[1 December 1812]
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38454i
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Identified by M.D. George in the British Museum catalogue as a parody of an advertisement for the Royal Menagerie at Exeter Change, off the Strand. The heads are those of members of the Oppposition who failed to form a ministry

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[London] : [publisher not identified], [1 December 1812]

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1 print : etching, with watercolour ; image 16.5 x 34 cm

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The anti-royal menagerie. Satirist invt. W.H. Ekoorb delt. Aqua Fortis fecit.

References note

British Museum, Catalogue of political and personal satires, London 1949, vol. 9, no. 11916

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Wellcome Collection 38454i

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