Three specimens of marine life Size:L: 80 x 60cm D Martin Bird

D Martin Bird

View of Billingsgate Market with people and fish on the quayside

The giant figures of Gog and Magog wink slyly to one another in the background

Young Hyaena

with two figures in the churchyard

Three specimens of marine life Size:L: 80 x 60cm D Martin BirdMarine zoological studies of three specimens. Figures 1 2 [centre] upper and lower views of a starfish, 'most common upon our English coast'. Figure 3 [below] sea horse from Italy, 'taken from the Royal Society'. Figure 4 [top] view of a sea turtle, possibly the Hawksbill turtle Eretmochelys imbricate, 'the first of the finny Race; drawn from Mr. Salter's Collection at the Coffee House at Chelsea.' Plate 4 from the book A philosophical account of the