Surrey Zoological Gardens, Exhibiting a View of Edinburgh

Title	Surrey Zoological Gardens, Exhibiting a View of Edinburgh
Artist	George Baxter English, 1804-1867
Date	1846
Medium	Steel etching, aquatint, and stipple printed in purple, with block printing in colors, on wove paper
Classification	etching
Origin	England

Themes: Zoological illustration

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“Surrey Zoological Gardens, Exhibiting a View of Edinburgh” is a work by George Baxter English, 1804-1867, dated 1846. It is executed in steel etching, aquatint, and stipple printed in purple, with block printing in colors, on wove paper and classified as etching. In this archive it sits within the zoological illustration tradition. This work is in the public domain (CC0), so the image may be downloaded and reused for any purpose without permission (see the licence note below).

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