'Lychnidea Caroliniana floribus...' mb-artist Sayle View of people attending Peckham

View of people attending Peckham Fair

View from the River Thames with boats and passengers on the river

'Extraordinary and Fatal combat

Janus in Roman mythology was the god of passageways and doorways

a member of the King's Privy Council

'Lychnidea Caroliniana floribus...' mb-artist Sayle View of people attending PeckhamBotanical study of Phlox carolina, described by John Martyn in the Historia Plantarum Rariorum (1728 ) and reproduced there as plate 9, (sponsored by Johann Caspar Scheutzer). From a specimen grown at Chelsea Physic Garden, probably from originals gathered by Mark Catesby. Inscribed in ink 'Lychnidea Caroliniana foribus quasi umbellatim dispositis folio lucidis crassis acutus, Martyn. H. R. P. D.' Not signed. Watermarked 'LVG.' Original: watercolour