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Who hung the monkey? (litho)

IMAGE number
LLE818234
Image title
Who hung the monkey? (litho)
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Artist
English School, (20th century) / English
Location
Private Collection
Medium
lithograph
Image description

Who hung the monkey? According to legend, a pet monkey was the sole survivor of a French warship wrecked off Hartlepool during the Napoleonic Wars. The local townspeople, not knowing what a Frenchman looked like, hanged the monkey as a spy.

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Look and Learn / Elgar Collection / Bridgeman Images
Image keywords
animal / United Kingdom / Europe / Napoleonic Wars (1804-1815) / war / monkey / Durham / England / legend / cruelty / execution / england / cruel / hanged / 19th century / british / hanging / ignorance / paranoia / mistaken identity / punishment / hartlepool / Engraving / Mzengraving
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Largest available format 1989 × 3241 px 2 MB
Dimension [pixels] Dimension in 300dpi [mm] File size [MB]
Large 1989 × 3241 px 168 × 274 mm 1.9 MB
Medium 629 × 1024 px 53 × 87 mm 783 KB

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