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… and the queen’s zebra. Likewise, Walpole and Mason exchanged witty letters on the zebra whose dead body was put on display at the Blue Boar Inn in York. In a letter dated 2 June 1773, Mason empathises with the zebra’s pitiable fate of … representations of turtle feasts were reproduced by caricaturists (William Dent), dramatists (Samuel Foote), and playwrights ( William Kenrick ) targeting the city’s merchants, bankers and the decline of aristocratic families. The …
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