The British Menagerie
- Title:
- The British Menagerie
- Collection:
- Images from the Rare Book and Manuscript Collections
- Creator:
- Cruikshank, Isaac (Scottish printmaker and draftsman, 1756-1811)
- Date:
- 1796
- Site:
- England, Great Britain
- Location:
- England, Great Britain
- ID Number:
- RMC2008_1142
- Catalog Record:
- 5820896
- File Name:
- RMC2008_1142.tif
- Work Type:
- color etching
prints (visual works) - Subject:
- caricatures
caricatures
austria
Russia
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 - Source:
- George Cruikshank drawings, 1795-1858.
- Bibliography:
- # 56 in volume. Depicts a collection of animals representing various countries [and national stereotypes]: 1. The Austrian Leopard, a very fierce Animal originally but now remarkably tame, a great digester of gold~ 2. The Prussian Eagle also famous for gold eating~ 3. The Gallic Cock, formerly a great crower! but now quietly at roost in the Menagerie~ 4. The Russian Bear a very prudent Animal~ 5. A Sardinian hedgeHog lately imported~ 6. & 7. Condé and Brunswick Mice very tame they have subsisted some time on the fragments of old Manifestoes 8. A Napolitan Bat 9. A Dutch Frog [a remakable sleeper] 10. A Swedish Pig~ 11. The Whore of Babylon [i.e., the Pope] who once was Master of All Europe, but now glad to find a place in this Menagerie. This was the public's view of British loans to other countries, with Prime Minister William Pitt feeding the caged beasts.; # 56 in volume. Depicts a collection of animals representing various countries [and national stereotypes]: 1. The Austrian Leopard, a very fierce Animal originally but now remarkably tame, a great digester of gold~ 2. The Prussian Eagle also famous for gold eating~ 3. The Gallic Cock, formerly a great crower! but now quietly at roost in the Menagerie~ 4. The Russian Bear a very prudent Animal~ 5. A Sardinian hedgeHog lately imported~ 6. & 7. Conde and Brunswick Mice very tame they have subsisted some time on the fragments of old Manifestoes 8. A Napolitan Bat 9. A Dutch Frog [a remakable sleeper] 10. A Swedish Pig~ 11. The Whore of Babylon [i.e., the Pope] who once was Master of All Europe, but now glad to find a place in this Menagerie. This was the public's view of British loans to other countries, with Prime Minister William Pitt feeding the caged beasts.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Collecting Program:
- Archives
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- For information regarding copyright for this image, send inquiries to rarerepro@cornell.edu