Seal skull mb-artist Ippyotei_Ashiyuki showing the major arteries

showing the major arteries

the blackcap fly-catcher

holding his other leg behind his head

Edwards Delin: et Sculp

the one on the right is like that worn by macaronis

Seal skull mb-artist Ippyotei_Ashiyuki showing the major arteriesPlate 27 from the paper 'On the difference in the appearence of the teeth and the shape of the skull in different species of seals', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 112 (1822), pp. 239 240. Side view of the skull of a seal 'from the South Seas' in the collections of the British Museum. Signed lower left 'Willm. Clift delin 1803'. Original: watercolour on board. 1803