| Unidentified photographer Fritz, The Indian elephant in the hunting villa of Stupinigi, Turin 1850 Daguerreotype Archivio Storico della Città di Torino This image is included in: www.daguerreobase.org LL/54158 Message posted by Michael Gregorio (Facebook , "The Daguerreian Society", 19 October 2015)
Fritz the Elephant was a gift from the Viceroy of Egypt, Mohamed Alì, to the King of Sardinia, Carlo Felice, in 1827. When Fritz died the corpse was stuffed and is preserved in the Museum of Natural Science in Turin, Italy.
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