Note
Location
Captive
Subject
Captive before 1800
Species
Greater One-horned Rhino (unicornis)
Advertisement: To be seen at the King’s Arms, Leadenhall Street, London. Daily Advertiser, London no. 6609, 13 March 1752.
Text:
To be seen at the King’s Arms, Leadenhall Street
The grandest Collection of WILD BEASTS, viz.
1. The noble Female Rhinoceros, or real Unicorn, a Beast of upwards of eighty Hundred weight, in a natural Coat or Mail or Armour, taken by the noted Kouli Kan from the Great Mogul.
2. A stupendous Crocodile alive, taken on the Banks of the River Nile in Egypt. Such a Creature was never shewn alive in the King’s Dominions before.
