Recto: Inscribed in graphite, bottom left corner: 64/100.
Recto: Inscribed in black printed ink, below image matrix, bottom edge: London’s first proper zoo, was at the Exeter Exchange in Covent Garden. Chunee the Elephant, lived for 17 years on the second story along with other animals in iron cages. Chunee did tricks, [space] taking off hats/of customers with his trunk, and returning them. Lord Byron said he wished Chunee was his butler. On Feb 1826, Chunee had a septic tusk and stopped doing tricks. He started to break out of his cage, and fearing he would fall/through the floor, they tried to kill him with arsenic, which he refused. Soldiers shot 152 musket balls into him, and his agonized cries could be heard down the Strand. He tried to do his tricks. He was finally killed by a sabre/attached to a pole, and was known as ‘the elephant who refused to die.’ This image was printed by a Heidelberg offset press, that . weighs the same as Chunee.

Recto: Signed and dated in graphite, right bottom edge: Sue Coe 2018

Recto: Two Chopmarks, stacked vertically, at lower right edge: [unknown] / The University of the Arts MFA Book Arts + Printmaking