Three specimens of marine life Size:L: 80 x 60cm with two figures in the

with two figures in the churchyard

The giant figures of Gog and Magog wink slyly to one another in the background

D Martin Bird

View of Billingsgate Market with people and fish on the quayside

' Inscribed below: 'G F Schmidt ad vivum del: et sculp: Berolim 1752'

Three specimens of marine life Size:L: 80 x 60cm with two figures in theMarine zoological studies of three specimens. Figures 1 2 [centre] upper and lower views of a starfish, 'most common upon our English coast'. Figure 3 [below] sea horse from Italy, 'taken from the Royal Society'. Figure 4 [top] view of a sea turtle, possibly the Hawksbill turtle Eretmochelys imbricate, 'the first of the finny Race; drawn from Mr. Salter's Collection at the Coffee House at Chelsea.' Plate 4 from the book A philosophical account of the