'Yellow-legged ascalaphus' [Yellow owl-fly] mb-height 2940 Original is oil on canvas

Original is oil on canvas 98x136

The journal's point is well made by also depicting the Irish 'witch' recently sentenced to a term of imprisonment for utilising her skills to produce apparitions

in concert

This 'telescopic philanthropy' was epitomised by Mrs Jellyby in Bleak House

and players Kevin Keegan and Terry McDermott

'Yellow-legged ascalaphus' [Yellow owl-fly] mb-height 2940 Original is oil on canvasEntomological study of the Yellow owl fly Suhpalacsa flavipes an insect native to Australia. Plate 20 from The zoological miscellany; being a description of new, or interesting animals, by William Elford Leach, volume 1 (London, 1815). The plate is inscribed: 'Drawn Engraved & Published by R. P. Nodder. 1814.' William Elford Leach (1790 1836) British naturalist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1816. Original: copperplate engraving. 1814