Bodleian_Libraries,_Handbill_of_Merchant's_Hall,_1739,_announcing_A_lion,_lionesses,_tigers,_etc..jpg
Summary
[Handbill of Merchant's Hall, [1739], announcing A lion, lionesses, tigers, etc. ] | |||||||
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Artist |
Charles Benjamin Incledon, 1763-1826 [performer]
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Author |
Merchant's Hall [author]
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Title |
[Handbill of Merchant's Hall, [1739], announcing A lion, lionesses, tigers, etc. ]
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Description |
English:
Handbill of Merchant's Hall, [1739], announcing A lion, lionesses, tigers, etc.; "with several other rarities, too tedious to mention"; 1739 (manuscript); Lion; Two large lionesses, or she-lions; Large he-tiger; One large she-tiger; Beautiful, noble panther; Large, wonderful, surprizing hyena; Large leopard; Large man tyger or Mounton Monster from Africa; [Handbill of Merchant's Hall, [1739], announcing A lion, lionesses, tigers, etc. ]
Italiano:
Manifesto di Charles Benjamin Incledon del 1739 che pubblicizza varie specie di feliformi messi in mostra: un leone della Mesopotamia dai dintorni di Bassora, un leone del Capo, una tigre dalle Indie Orientali, una pantera da Buenos Aires, una Hyaena hyaena dall'Africa occidentale e un leopardo dalla Turchia, oltre a una «tigre-uomo» dall'Africa. Il manifesto afferma che la «hyaena» può imitare la voce umana per attirare gli uomini.
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Date |
1739
date QS:P571,+1739-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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Dimensions | single sheet; 171 x 121 mm | ||||||
Accession number |
Animals on Show 2 (5)
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Inscriptions | Advertisement to the quality gentry and others, that there is come to this city, and is to be seen any hour of the day at Merchant's-Hall in Poss-gate, the largest collection of living wild creatures, and the greatest rarities ever shown, or probably ever will be in Europe | ||||||
Notes | Allegro identifier: 20030512/15:57:15$hm . | ||||||
Source/Photographer |
Digital Bodleian
This file comes from the
John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera
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Permission
( Reusing this file ) |
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