Menagerie Collection

Zebra-drawn trap of Lord Walter Rothschild
Rothschild broke in and trained several zebras to pull a trap, which he memorably used to visit Buckingham Palace in 1898 Date: 1898

The Death of Ellen Bright at Wombwells Menagerie, 1850
Engraving showing Ellen Bright (1832-1850), a Lion Queen animal trainer, being attacked by a tiger during the course of a performance at Wombwells Menagerie, Chatham, January 1850

Circus Poster / Polito s
A poster for Politos Menagerie advertising a horned horse (or nilghau), a zebra, an elephant and a fully grown lion!

Bonzo - Bostocks remarkable Sea lion
Bonzo a remarkable performing Sea Lion at Bostock and Wombwells Travelling Circus - pictures with trainer Zetta Hills Date: circa 1926

Circus Poster / Polito s
A poster for Politos Menagerie advertising a royal tiger, a fiery lynx, an ursine sloth and a pelican

Morning in Menagerie
Morning in the menagerie - the animals are washed and fed in preparation for the days activities

Exeter Change by Charles Robinson
A visit to the menagerie at Exeter Change, one of the many picturesque buildings in the Strand destroyed by road widening in 1830. Built on the site of St

Zoological gardens by B. Waterhouse Hawkins
Original artwork by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, donated by his granddaughter Mary Hawkins

whitehaven fair in 1899 funfair lake district menagerie Date: 1899

Wombwells Menagerie at Windsor Castle, 1847
Engraving showing the tents of Wombwells Menagerie in the Great Quadrangle of Windsor Castle during the Windsor Michaelmas Fair, October 1847

Shipping wild animals in the London Docks
Animals of Messrs. Howe and Cushings menagerie being loaded at the London Docks

Jeremiah or George Wombwell (1777 - 1850), English zoo owner, who achieved fame and fortune with Wombwell's Travelling Menagerie, pictured shortly before his death. Date: 1850

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert visiting Wombwells Menager
Engraving showing Queen Victoria, Prince Albert and their children looking at the animals of Wombwells Menagerie

England / London / Tower
Visitors are shown some of the principal sights, including the lion in the menagerie which, after a regrettable episode, was transferred elsewhere for security reasons

Black jaguar, Fanthera pardus
Black jaguar or black panther, Fanthera onca, with skull. Melanistic variant of the jaguar. (Felis discolor.) A specimen was exhibited in George Wombwell's Menagerie

Male tiger, Panthera tigris, endangered, on a river bank in the jungle. Tyger, Felis tigris. From a specimen in the menagerie of the Exeter Exchange, 1805

Salmon-crested cockatoo perched on a branch near the coast
Salmon-crested cockatoo, Cacatua moluccensis, also known as the Moluccan cockatoo, perched on a branch near a tropical coastline. Great red-crested cockatoo, Psittacus moluccensis

Common Eurasian beaver, Castor fiber, near a riverbank with fir trees. Drawn from live specimens in the menagerie in the Exeter Exchange, London, 1805

Striped hyena with animal carcass
Striped hyena, Hyaena hyaena, with skeletal animal carcass against a exotic landscape with palm tree and cactus. From a live specimen in the menagerie in the Exeter Exchange, London

A funfair or circus menagerie, Victorian period

Entrance to London Zoo
View of the entrance to the zoological gardans 1840. London Zoo is the worlds oldest scientific zoo

Bruin Alex the Bear, Wombwells Menagerie. Date: circa 1910s

Advertisement for Cross - Wild Beast Merchant, Liverpool. " Anything from A Humming Bird to an Elephant " Date: 1907

The Sale of the Royal Windsor Castle Menagerie 1884

Christmas present - Miniature Barnum Great Menagerie 1908
Edwardian children would have loved this gift for Christams, miniature wild animal figures in captive cages, for the nursery. 1908

LA MENAGERIE 1867
Advertisement for La Menagerie, Paris selling household goods Date: 1867

Circus Poster / B. Mills
A poster for Bertram Mills circus and menagerie in Elgin, featuring an assortment of performing animals and people. Date: 1940s

Balthasar Nebot - Gardens of Hartwell House, Aylesbury - 2 / 8
One of a series of eight paintings by Balthasar Nebot (active 1729-1765) showing the spectacular garden landscape of Hartwell House, just outside Aylesbury, in 1738

Blackpool Tower Zoo 1900
Inside the Blackpool Tower Menagerie on a quiet day. Date: circa 1900

Giant tortoises at Tring Park
In 1897 Walter Rothschild despatched explorer Charles Harris to the Galapagos islands to collect a large number of giant tortoises

Giant tortoise being fed at Tring Park
In 1897 Walter Rothschild despatched explorer Charles Harris to the Galapagos islands to collect a large number of giant tortoises

Emu, rheas and kangaroos at Tring Park
Live animals collected by Walter Rothschild in the grounds of Tring Park, with keeper Mr Marcham, 1890 Date: 1890

Pidcocks Exhibition, Exeter Change, Strand, London
Copper farthing token (21mm diameter) c. 1795-1801 made by James. Advertising Pidcocks exhibition of living animals at the Exeter Change, Strand

Wombwells Royal Menagerie, 1853
A printed poster advertising Wombwells Royal Mengarie visiting Leeds in 1853

Quixote & Lion
He frees a menagerie lion from its cage - fortunately, it merely yawns at him ! Date: First published: 1605-15

Emu and rheas at Tring Park
Rheas from South America and Emus from Australia are examples of the flightless ratite birds kept by Walter Rothschild at Tring Park

Endpapers, Cecil Aldins Happy Family, Humpty and Dumpty
Endpaper design by Cecil Aldin, Cecil Aldins Happy Family, Humpty and Dumpty, Their Adventures, told by May Byron

Sir George Wombwell
SIR GEORGE WOMBWELL no the menagerie proprietor but a man-about-town. with his autograph Date: 1792 - 1855

George Wombwell
GEORGE WOMBWELL menagerie proprietor Date: 1778 - 1850

Royal Menagerie, Exeter Change, Strand, London
A printed poster advertising the Royal Menagerie in the Exeter Change, Strand, London c.1820

Wombwells Royal National Menagerie
A printed poster advertising Wombwells Royal National Menagerie dated c.1800

Pidcocks Exhibition Alive, Exeter Change, Strand, London
Copper halfpenny token (28mm diameter) dated 1795 made by James. Advertising Pidcocks exhibition of living animals at the Exeter Change, Strand

Wombwells Royal National Zoological Establishment

Intoosa Monate (a present Mynheer)
c. 1869-72. Sketch 70 from a collection of original sketches by Thomas Baines

Working Elephants 1907
Elephants help to extinguish the flames when a train carrying a menagerie crashes in West Virginia, USA. Date: 1907

Olders museum, circus & menagerie. Olders museum, circus & menagerie

The Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth - The realistic jungle menagerie... Poster showing animals on display and performers beneath palm trees. Date c1897

Parade Float for Harknetts Menagerie
A fantatsic postcard photograph depicting a Parade Float for Harknetts Menagerie, with lots of willing circus employees dressed up as a variety of wild animals!! Date: circa 1910s

Nautical Film Crew
A floating menagerie and strange crew, docked at Catalina, Canada, whilst filming a movie. Date: 1930s

Leopard attack on zoo keeper, 1870
An alarming occurance at a menagerie-a keeper attacked by five leopards. Date: 1870

Miniature horses, 1904
Miniature horses in the Jardin D Acclimatation, France. Date: 1904

Vic Visits Wombwells
WOMBWELLs MENAGERIE Queen Victoria and the royal family visit the lions. Date: 1847

Central Park, New York
The Menagerie, Central Park, New York City, America

Palace of the Porphyrogenitus. Constructed during the early 13th century as part of the palace complex of Blachernae. Named after Constantine Palaiologos, son of the Emperor Michael VIII

Cecil Aldin and Louise Browne
Cecil Aldin, artist, pictured with the actress Miss Louise Browne, as he sketches her pet dog, a Sealyham terrier, named Bundle

Vienna / Schonbrunn 1916
Vienna: Schonbrunn, the Menagerie

Boy and Panther
An over-inquisitive youth, investigating a menagerie parked overnight in a siding in a French railway station, is mauled by the panther who inhabits the wagon

Animal Stories for Tiny Folk
Front cover jacket illustration showing two little girls with bobbed hair feeding a menagerie of animals in a farm yard

Menagerie / Tower / 1820
Visitors are shown around the Menagerie

Elephants at Hamburg
Six elephants from a menagerie in transit escape from Hamburg railway station and have to be pursued through the streets of the city, much to the consternation of Hamburgers

Marco, Lion of Tower
(felis leo) This is Marco, a resident of the Tower Menagerie in London

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