DESCRIPTION
An imperious-looking man riding on a baby elephant in a Victorian zoological garden, to the amazement of adult bystanders and delight of the children - but the poor beast looks most alarmed. From a bound volume of copies of “Punch Almanack” for 1865-79. Punch was a British magazine newspaper founded in 1841, famous for its humorous and satirical cartoons which were created by some of the foremost illustrators of the day: the Almanack was a supplement.