The London Gardener

Another Glimpse of Brookes’s Vivarium

Author - Tim Knox
Originally published in Volume 10 (2004-05)

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Attributed to R. B. Schnebbelie, ‘View of Joshua Brookes’s Museum, 25 June 1817. Note the gable of the hermitage, and one of the denizens of the vivarium just visible above the garden wall. (COURTESY THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND)