Zookeeper boxing a male kangaroo at the Exeter Exchange zoo, London, 1806

Zookeeper boxing a male kangaroo at the Exeter Exchange zoo, London, 1806. A monkey watches from another pen. A pair of kangaroos, possibly red kangaroos, Osphranter rufus, was brought over from Port Jackson, New South Wales, for the collection of Mr. Gilbert Pidcock. A menagerie operated there from 1773 to 1829, and travelling circus owner Pidcock bought it in 1793. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Reverend Thomas Smith’s The Naturalist’s Cabinet, or Interesting Sketches of Animal History, Albion Press, James Cundee, London, 1806. Smith, fl. 1803-1818, was a writer and editor of books on natural history, religion, philosophy, ancient history and astronomy.