3-066-090 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Odd Sketches at the Zoological Gardens: "Like Master Like Man", 1881. 'Among the observant and meditative visitors to those instructive garden-exhibitions of foreign beasts and birds...in the principal cities of Europe...some minds will be tempted to detect whimsical likenesses between the different species of animals there on view, and the variety of characteristic human figures met with inside or outside the precincts allotted to the zoological collection. A few droll examples of this kind of undesigned and unconscious resemblances, which may be seen either in the face, the gesture and attitude, or the symptoms of temper and moral disposition, so far as irrational creatures may be credited with a moral faculty, have been set forth in the drawings by one of our Artists...[This one represents the] companionship of a groom with a bull-dog, walking together outside the gates of the Zoological Society's Gardens, and displaying a kindred physiognomy, bred of their intimate association in the stable-yard....That "one touch of nature" which "makes the whole world kin" seems here to be multiplied into many diverse touches; suggesting a kindred nature, in some respects, between certain brutes or feathered bipeds, and certain individuals of mankind'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.