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… Menageries: The Queen’s Zebra Seen as an establishment of luxury and curiosity a menagerie was, in eighteenth-century England, a collection of captive exotic animals kept by aristocratic and royal courts for attesting their power and … Mercury (31 Dec. 1789). Pidcock inserted hundreds of advertisements in London and local newspapers (when he was touring England) 8 in order to start a new trend of interaction with animals, inviting the Georgians, including women and … the sweetness of their breath, and the neatness of their apartment’. 10 Richard Happenstall, a shrewd showman touring England with a dromedary from Persia and a camel from Grand Cairo, informed the lovers of living curiosities that they …
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