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Slide set: The elephant's revenge: or, the new Jumbo in Africa (story: Theobald & Co., 12 slides, in/before 1893)

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Descriptive data for this set (listed below slide images)

Slide 1

Jumbo in the morning

Slide 2

Jumbo having breakfast

Slide 3

The cruel Nigger

Slide 4

In pursuit

Slide 5**

Caught

Slide 6

Come back to the river

Slide 7

A ducking

Slide 8**

The Alligator

Slide 9**

Head over Heels

Slide 10

Hanging up to Dry

Slide 11

The Cactus bush

Slide 12

Covered with thorns

** there are alternative versions or views of this slide

Number of slides

Theobald & Co., England

Other related organisations

in stock of C. Gray, , dates unknown (item ref. 7)

in stock of Theobald & Co., 1893

in stock of E.G. Wood, 1894

in stock of James Lancaster & Son, 1897

in stock of George Houghton & Son, 1903 (item ref. 757)

in stock of Houghton's Ltd, 1905 (item ref. 23)

Main type of image

drawing / painting / print

Main usage of set

story

Retail price

5s. (Wood) in 1894

Date of first manufacture

unknown (latest possible 1893)

Source of slide images

Wilhelm Busch, Die Rache des Elephanten (Munich: 1863)

Readings or songs

‘The elephant's revenge: or, the new Jumbo in Africa’ in Readings in prose and verse

John Horton and Elizabeth Horton, The elephant's revenge (c.1990)

Related slide set

see generic title The elephant's revenge (generic set title – 8 different versions are known)

Series

Theobald transfer slide sets

People involved in slide production

BUSCH, Wilhelm (1832-1908) – creator of source image(s), all 12 slides

Notes

The pictures are based on Busch's 1863 story Die Rache des Elephanten (No. 354 in the Münchener Bilderbogen series), but have been redrawn for the slides.

Collections

1 slide in The Hive, Worcester

12 slides known to exist in private collection

2 slides in Royal Albert Memorial Museum Collection

1 slide in A.H. Whinfield Collection

Subject keywords

animals – land mammals
comedy / humour

Lucerna ID 3005956

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 5 March 2024

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