Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Now exhibiting in Philip Street. Under the immediate patronage of His Majesty. T. Atkins's immense menagerie : wonderful phenomenon in nature, the singular and hitherto deemed impossible occurence of a lion & tigress, in one den! Cohabiting and producing young, has again taken place in the menagerie, on the 28th of October, 1828, at Windsor, when the royal tigress brought forth three fine cubs!!! ... Lion-tigers ... The aurochs or gnu ... The scientific colossal elephant ... The alpacas ... Two fine zebras ... The ursine sloth ... Leopards ... Grand cassowary ... Two pelicans of the wilderness ...

Accession number
PML 146639, p. 486 (facing)
Creator
Atkins, Thomas.
Published
Cheltenham : J.J. Hadley, Printer, Journal Office, [1828?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Poem on verso, "Unparalled attraction!!! Prodigies of nature!! Lion-tiger; a tigress their dam, and a lion their sire!!!"; first line: Whatever of Nature surprise may command ...
Illustrated with a wood engraving of the Royal Arms on recto and an illustration of a man kneeling beside a tigress with her cubs on verso.
Broadside folded, inlaid, and inserted after p. 486 in v. 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of Henry Morley's Memoirs of Batholomew Fair (London : Chapman and Hall, 1859), see PML 146639.
Description
1 sheet ([2] p.) : ill. ; 76 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Classification
Department