A dingy room, apparently the menagerie at the Tower of London, with visitors come to see the monkeys, all of which are drawn as grotesque, demonic, hairless creatures with bulbous wrinkled foreheads, long noses and wide grins. At left, a delighted party of three, a fashionable but grotesque woman, a stout man and a young boy, behind them a military man with his head in profile, resembling those of the monkeys; at right, a man with a cudgel, and a horrified young woman. The monkeys are grouped at centre around a fire in a grate, at which one warms its hands, two embracing at left, others reacting with amusement to the humans; an enormous, satanic creature chained in a niche at right, holding out its arms beseechingly; more monkeys seen through bars at far left, an angry big cat behind bars seen through an open doorway at right.  20 December 1799
<br>Hand-coloured etching with aquatint and stipple
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<p>Print made by: Thomas Rowlandson
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<dl><dd>Published by: Ackermann</dd></dl></div>
1799<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1799-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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