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… celebrated animal in 1763. George Stubbs, ‘Zebra’, 1763, Yale Center for British Art, B1981.25.617. Satirical prints and songs about the zebra were produced as symbolic representations of the royal political rivalry and corruption. The connection between the Queen and her female zebra was so notable that a humorous allegorical song was composed: ‘What prospect so charming! / What can surpass? / The delicate sight of her M------‘s A--?’. 1 This rude song surviving in a printed broadsheet is an example of the amusement that the Georgians derived from the zebra jokes and …
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