Model
Date1825-1860
MediumPlaster
DimensionsObject/Work: 380 x 240 x 360 mm
ClassificationsSculpture
Terms
Object numberC06422
DescriptionPlaster model of a giraffe from the Royal Surrey Zoological Gardens, Walworth. In 1843 five young giraffes were purchased for the Zoological Gardens. They travelled from Africa to Walworth, London, where they were the first giraffes on public display in Britain. This model dipicts one of them. It was added to the collection by Henry Syer Cuming in the mid 1800s.
On View
Not on viewCollections
2000 BC-500 AD
1550-1086 BC
before 1900
1700-1900
