“The King’s giraffe hangs limply from a sling which is suspended from a cross-beam supported on two uprights. George IV and Lady Conyngham push hard at a windlass to hoist up their pet. He has thrown off his coat and rolled up his shirt-sleeves; tight breeches define spherical posteriors. She looks up sentimentally at the animal, whose forelegs are swathed in stockings, with the feet in large shoes stamped with a crown. Beside it is an open chest of stoppered spirit bottles. A background of trees and grass indicates Windsor Park.”–British Museum online catalogue.
- Printmaker: Heath, William, 1795-1840, printmaker.
- Title: State of the giraffe [graphic] / [man with an umbrella] Esqr.
- Publication: [London] : Pub. by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket …, [ca. July 1829]
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January 2020