An image from a grand and brutal acquisition story describing the capture of Asian elephants, emphasizing the dangers, efforts, and expenditures that P.T. Barnum undertook to obtain exotic beasts for his world famous show; a calssic bit of propaganda the circus magnate was known for.

American School, 19th century

Hoisting Elephant on Shipboard

Frederick Gleason, 1851. Engraving with hand-drawn borders on cream wove paper, laid down to board. 7 3/4 x 10 inches (197 x 255 mm), trimmed margins, lacking text. Scattered light soiling, and toning, with a dog-eared lower left corner. An illustration from the June 21 & 28, 1851 edition of Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion.

The Pictorial featured artists such as Winslow Homer, and authors such as: Giddings H. Ballou, Susan H. Blaisdell, Alice Carey, Sylvanus Cobb, Jr., Sophronia Currier, Mrs. S.P. Doughty, Francis A. Durivage, Aglaus Forrester, Mrs. H.C. Gardner, Joseph Holt Ingraham, Grace Lee, Mary A. Lowell, Mary L. Meany, Ellen Alice Moriarty, Arthur Morton, Frances P. Pepperell, Mary E. Robinson, M.V. St. Leon, Frederick Ward Saunders, Sue M. Scott, Maurice Silingsby, Frederick Stanhope, Horace B. Staniford, John Thornberry, Winnie Woodfern, and Joseph Wolf.

Item number: 1325

Price: $200.00

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