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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 … ‘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 of the Victorian era. As the British Empire expanded, private and public menageries were populated by exotic animals seen as objects of fascination and wonder and whose aim was to entertain …
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