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… 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. 1790’s, Conder Token Middlesex, DH414. Image Pietro Longhi, ‘The Rhinoceros’, 1751, The … 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 visitors and guests as well as to satisfy the curiosity for the animal world. In such places of sociability, exotic animals became commodities to be entertained by and to consume collectively thereby becoming part of London life …
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