Title

Industrie, Patience, Intelligence - birds trained by Emilie Vandermeersch, 1850. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Industrie, Patience, Intelligence - birds trained by Emilie Vandermeersch, 1850. 'This young lady...has applied herself from an early age to the training of birds...she exercises over them an extraordinary power, inducing them to perform feats of a wholly different kind from those which have been done by trained animals before. They...seem to be, acts of intelligence...because, after the most careful and minute observation, we have been unable to arrive at even a guess as to the manner in which Mdlle. Emilie Vandermeersch communicates with the birds...the birds tell the day of the week, month, or year; the seasons; the time by any one's watch; or they will spell any word indicated, provided it do not contain any one letter twice over...Mdlle. Emilie Vandermeersch is...not more than 17 or 18 years of age - a fact which makes her power over these birds the more remarkable'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM22A33_289

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Rights managed

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57,0Mb (3,0Mb) / 16,5in x 13,4in / 4960 x 4018 (300dpi)

Keywords

animal unusual bird birds industry country entertainment French France British patience caged cage industrial performance performers performer performing circus location Victorian century intelligence Britain intelligent trick newspapers press concept B&W birdcage engraved engraving circus act 19th century black & white black and white B W nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News ILN caged bird newspaper Unknown 19th-century Emilie Vandermeersch Vandermeersch Emilie