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… 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 advertise Pidcock’s exhibition of wild animals at Exeter Change’, c. … Animals in Eighteenth-Century London (London: I.B. Tauris, 2015), p. 193. The Sociability of Travelling Menageries: Gilbert Pidcock’s Well-Behaved Exotic Animals Apart from royal menageries providing entertainment and prestige, a …
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