The giant Gog extricating the dwarf Xit from a bear in the Lions Tower at the Tower of London, watched by Queen Mary I. Etching by George Cruikshank.

  • Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.
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1842
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34380i
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The giant Gog extricating the dwarf Xit from a bear in the Lions Tower at the Tower of London, watched by Queen Mary I. Etching by George Cruikshank. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Set in London in the reigns of Lady Jane Grey and Queen Mary I. Chapter XIX describes the menagerie of wild animals that existed at the Tower of London until 1835, shortly before the novel was published. The court dwarf Xit (knighted as Sir Narcissus Le Grand) challenges the bear Maximilian to a duel, is overcome and is rescued by the giant Gog

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London : Hugh Cunningham, 1842.

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1 print : etching ; image 12.2 x 10.4 cm

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Gog extricating Xit from the bear in the Lions Tower. George Cruikshank.

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Wellcome Collection 34380i

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