'L'Ammodite' [Lesser sand eel] Size:L: 80 x 40cm This painting forms plate 4

This painting forms plate 4 of 'The Thanatophidia of India: being a description of the venomous snakes of the Indian peninsula

whilst conditions were appalling

Pictured here with John Conteh in Debenhams Department Store

HYLOBATES AGILIS

Tom Rakewell is at his morning levee

'L'Ammodite' [Lesser sand eel] Size:L: 80 x 40cm This painting forms plate 4Marine zological study showing a side view of the Lesser sand eel, or sand lance, (Ammodytes tobianus). Includes an enlarged detail of the head of the fish, lower left. Plate 2 from the book Icones rerum naturalium, ou figures enlumlinees d'histoire naturelle du Nord, by Peter Ascanius, volume 1 (Copenhagen, 1772). Inscribed upper right 'Ic: Rer: Nat: Tab: II.' Peter Ascanius was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1755. Original: copperplate