print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 1935,0522.1.169
- Title
- Object: The Exhibition of Wild Beasts. Mankind is fond of looking at their own likenesses.
- Description
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Satire comparing people with animals: a range of spectators, including a clergyman, a coachman, a farmworker, a macaroni, a well-dressed old woman, a fat Londoner and his wife, in a menagerie where are displayed "Horns of a Mexican Deer", a crocodile or alligator, a whalebone, snake and narwhal tusk, a stuffed "Dromedary" and an "American Buffalo", and, in cages, "Silken Monkies", "The Indian Hog", "Tyger", "The Sloth", "The Syrian Goat" and "The Iceland Ram"; the macaroni looks through his eye-glass at one of the monkeys which is dressed, like him, in a red coat and wig with a large queue.
Hand-coloured mezzotint
- Production date
- 1774
- Dimensions
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Height: 350 millimetres
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Width: 250 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The date of publication is given by another impression in the BM (1877,1013.850).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2013 Oct-Dec, Warwickshire, Compton Verney, Curious Beasts
2014 March-May, Belfast, Ulster Museum, Curious Beasts
2014 June-Aug, Hull, Ferens Art Gallery, Curious Beasts
2014 Oct-Dec, San Diego, University Galleries, Curious Beasts
2016-2017 21 Oct-5 Feb, Adelaide, South Australian Museum: ‘Curious Beasts’
- Acquisition date
- 1935
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1935,0522.1.169