'The Polar Bear' Size:XL: 100 x 75cm the eastern kingbird

the eastern kingbird

Plate between pp 68 & 69 from the book Pyrotechnia

the British Lion and the French Eagle consider what action they can take to bring the War to a conclusion

The conspiracy involved a plan to assassinate the British Cabinet

with a prepared frog

'The Polar Bear' Size:XL: 100 x 75cm the eastern kingbirdZoological study of a polar bear (Ursus maritimus) and cub in an Arctic landscape. Plate 2 from Museum Leverianum containing select specimens from the museum of the late Sir Ashton Lever by George Shaw (published by James Parkinson, 1792). The plate is inscribed: 'C. R. Ryley del. Noble sculp. URSUS POLARIS. THE POLAR BEAR. Publish'd April 6 1791 by J. Parkinson. Leverian Museum, London.' Original: copperplate engraving. 1791