Menageries [ Sports & Leisure / Politics & Society / Social interaction ]
… ‘The Rhinoceros’, 1751, The National Gallery, NG1101. Image George Stubbs, ‘Zebra’, 1763, Yale Center for British Art, B1981.25.617. Image George Cooke, ‘Exeter Change’, Yale Center for British Art, B1977.14.15219. Image ‘The English Glutton’, 20 July 1776, © The Trustees of the British Museum, BM 1948,0214.562. … of 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 …
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