"The Baby Hippopotamus"
[n.d. c.1870's]
Very rare lithograph, sheet 220 x 285mm (8¾ x 11¼"), with large margins. Creases.
An anthropromorphic satire. A midwife wearing a dress and bonnet holds a baby hippo, just birthed by the hippo laying in a grand bed. Grandparents look pleased, the grandmother sits on a chair while the grandfather stands next to the fireplace wearing a housecoat. Possibly a satire on the first captive-bred hippo at London Zoo; bore by Adhela and fathered by Obaysch in 1871.
[Ref: 61459] £180.00
Very rare lithograph, sheet 220 x 285mm (8¾ x 11¼"), with large margins. Creases.
An anthropromorphic satire. A midwife wearing a dress and bonnet holds a baby hippo, just birthed by the hippo laying in a grand bed. Grandparents look pleased, the grandmother sits on a chair while the grandfather stands next to the fireplace wearing a housecoat. Possibly a satire on the first captive-bred hippo at London Zoo; bore by Adhela and fathered by Obaysch in 1871.
[Ref: 61459] £180.00