'La Carpe de Mer' [Wrasse] Product:Canvas 19th June 1969

19th June 1969

is attended by a hideous doctor who takes his pulse

' showing a carriage full of people leaving London and a smartly-dressed woman in a crinoline at London Bridge Wharf

Oval within a printed decorative border

'Le roi a la station de New Cross'

'La Carpe de Mer' [Wrasse] Product:Canvas 19th June 1969Marine zoological study showing a side view of the Ballan wrasse (Labrus bergylta). Includes a detail of the jaws and teeth of the fish, lower left. Plate 1 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. I.' Peter Ascanius was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1755. Original: copperplate engraving. 1772