'Figure d'un Elephant' Size:S: 50 x 40cm London in 1805

London in 1805

The new Covent Garden Theatre

plate VII of Industry and Idleness

It may possibly be Roman

The administration of the railways was unable to keep up with the increasing volume of traffic using the track infrastructure

'Figure d'un Elephant' Size:S: 50 x 40cm London in 1805Figure of an elephant, viewed from the side. In discussing the elephant the author compares the tusks of elephants with the supposed horns of unicorns. Illustration from Discours d'Ambroise Pare a scavoir, de la mumie, de la licorne, des venins, et de la peste, avec une table des plus notables matieres contenues esdit discours (chez Gabriel Buon, Paris, 1582), f. 23. Ambroise Par (c. 1510 1590) was a French barber surgeon and anatomist who served