Portrait of Cornelis van der Geest Size:Standard: 6 x 4in When Dick Chipperfield bought George

When Dick Chipperfield bought George the Giraffe he didn't realise how much trouble he would have in transporting him about the countryside with his circus

Frederick died before George and the throne eventually passed to his own eldest son

Peony and two polygalons

Two gentlemen hitch their trousers up before attempting to cross the road

Portrait of Cornelis van der Geest Size:Standard: 6 x 4in When Dick Chipperfield bought George'Portrait of Cornelis van der Geest', c1620, (1933). Cornelis van der Geest (1555 1638) was an Antwerp spice merchant and patron of the arts. Illustration from the Apollo, Volume XVIII, no 108, (December 1933).