'Rhea americana [gizzard]' Finish:Rolled Proposal for roof covering quadrangle

Proposal for roof covering quadrangle of the Royal Exchange

The plate bears the inscription: 'Fanis Sextantis Posterior 7 ped: Rad:

one in the act of jumping

October 1965

Parsonage House

'Rhea americana [gizzard]' Finish:Rolled Proposal for roof covering quadranglePlate 15, from the paper 'On the different structures and situations of the solvent glands in the digestive organs of birds, according to the nature of their food and particular modes of life', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 102 (1812), pp. 394 404. Internal view of the cardiac cavity and gizzard of the Rhea, quarter scale. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details and upper right 'Rhea