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.

To be seen, Wombwell's Royal National Menagerie : One of the most interesting exhibitions which Europe affords, is a view of this magnificent collection of foreign animals and birds. Mr. G.W. begs to announce to the public, that the whole of this superb menagerie will attend this place .. Elapho-caleus ... The pacos, or unaco ... A colossal male elephant ... Egyptian white camel ... Two beautiful zebras ... Real quagga, or onagga of the ancients ... The male nyl-ghau ... The kangaroo ... Lions, and lionesses ... The cheta, or hunting tiger ...

Accession number
PML 146639, p. 486b
Creator
Wombwell, George, 1777-1850.
Published
Nottingham : Samuel Bennett, [183-?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Illustrated with a wood engraving at head of sheet showing an elephant standing on a lioness as a male lion charges towards it from the left.
Broadside folded, inlaid, and inserted as the second plate (i.e. plate "b") 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 ([1] p.) : ill. ; 70 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Classification
Department