# exploreyourarchive animalarchives

Here's an drawing from the notebook of Edward Pleydell Bouverie of Longford Castle, aged 11 in 1829. It's a precarious-looking stepladder against a giraffe's head. As you do. Edward was later a Liberal politician & President of the Poor Law Board

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2022-08-31

These illustrations depicting China come from the book 'The Chinese Empire' by Thomas Allom, published in 1858. There is speculation that Allom never visited China himself... Can you spot the cats? https://t.co/wozFkAcBo9

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2022-08-19

The caricaturist and illustrator John Leech was a pupil at the School when it was still based in London, and we are lucky to have some of his work within our collections.
Including this drawing of a girl on a horse.

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2022-08-12

This propaganda poster depicts excited villagers waving flags and carrying food and flowers to welcome soldiers from the Chinese People's Liberation Army arriving on horseback. https://t.co/jpHkLI2oIy

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2022-08-08

For all those cat lovers out there, here are some charming illustrations from The Greyfriar Magazine 1958.

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2022-08-04