Menageries [ Sports & Leisure / Politics & Society / Social interaction ]
… Image ‘Robertson Royal Menagerie, 9 The Strand, London’, c. 1820, State Library of New South Wales, ML 1354. Image Gilbert Pidcock, ‘Obverse of a Conder Token issued to … BM 1948,0214.562. Image William Belch, ‘The Destruction of the Elephant destroyed at Exeter “Change”’, 1826, Museum of London, 60.43/16. Abstract Georgian menageries are to be seen as the predecessors to the more formal zoological societies … sociability, exotic animals became commodities to be entertained by and to consume collectively thereby becoming part of London life in the eighteenth century. Privileged gentry, aristocracy, and ordinary people established social relations …
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