3-056-289 - The London Archives (City of London)/Heritage Images

The Wonder of the Age! The Largest Horse in the World, now exhibiting at Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, 1846. 'The Mammoth Horse, General Washington, the Property of Mr Carter, the Lion King. He is Twenty Hands in height, weighs Twenty-five Hundred Pounds, and is the most remarkable Animal, as regards size and shape, that was ever seen'. Advertisement for an attraction at the Egyptian Hall in London which became known as "England's Home of Mystery" due to its association with magic and spiritualism. The 'Mammoth Horse', owned by a lion tamer called Carter, and was claimed to be the tallest horse in the world at that time, measuring 2 metres in height and weighing 1133 kilos.