'Chimerina cornuta' [Rhinoceros auklet] mb-height 5000 2 û central left image

2 û central left image

Zoological studies of a 'Calandra' from North America [possibly the female Horned lark Eremophila alpestris] posed on a turf divot

1780 and burning Mr Akerman's furniture

Original is oil on panel 26

Income Tax was increased by a penny

'Chimerina cornuta' [Rhinoceros auklet] mb-height 5000 2 û central left imageOrnithological study of the Rhinoceros Auklet (Cerorhinca monocerata) native to the Pacific coast of North America. Plate 12 from the book Zoologischer Atlas, enthaltend Abbildungen und Beschreibungen neuer Thierarten wahrend des Flottcapitains von Kotzebue zweiter Reise um die Welt, by Friedrich Eschscholtz (Berlin, 1829). Inscribed '4 5 Chimerina cornuta. E. Bomer del. M. Haas sc.' Johann Friedrich Eschscholtz (1793 1831) Livonian physician,