The menageries : quadrupeds, described and drawn from living subjects.

Date:
1831
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The menageries : quadrupeds, described and drawn from living subjects. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ILLUSTRATIONS. Page . 3 . H . 21 . 22 . 23 . 25 . 28 . 42 . 43 . 47 . 53 1 The Indian elephant, Elephas Indicus, Cuvier . 2 Scene exhibited at the Adelphi Theatre .... 3 Female elephant at Mr. Cross’s Menagerie . 4 Head of a female elephant in Atkins’s Menagerie 5 Elephant of the Jardin des Plantes 6 Young elephants browsing 7 Elephant lying down 8 Skeleton of the elephant shot at Exeter Change .... 9 Skeleton of the horse 10 Section of the skull of the elephant 11 Sections of the trunk of the elephant . . . • * • 12 to 18 Extremity of the proboscis of the elephant, exemplifying the manner in which it grasps different objects • . t 19 An elephant pulling down the branch of a tree . . • . • 20 Front view of an elephant’s head, with the tiunk turned, shewing the construction of the mouth 21 Elephants drinking 22 Elephant swimming 23 Medal of Tranquillina, wife of Gordian . 24 Surfaces of the cheek teeth of the Indian and African elephant . 25 Skull of the Indian elephant 26 Skull of the African elephant 27 Female elephant and young one sucking .... 28 Wild elephant captured by means ol decoy female elephants 29 Wild elephant left after having been bound . • • • 30 Elephant harnessed in a keddah. From an original drawing by Mr. Corse Scott, engraved in Brewster’s Encyclopaedia 31 African elephant. Elephas Africanus, Cuvier ... 32 Enraged elephant destroying his driver . • * • 33 Warren Hastings’ elephant ..••••* 34 Method of descending from an elephant by a rope ... 3 5 Hunters in a howdah . 3 6 Tiger at bay .... 37 Tiger springing .... 38 Elephant killing a tiger 39 Elephant attacked by a rhinoceros 40 Elephant killing a horse . 41 Elephant baited .... 60 61 64 83 84 85 86 90 106 108 118 120 149 162 167 179 181 183 185 186 194 196 ’S'fe. Oltoti, - i
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