'L'Orphie' [Garfish Size:S: 60 x 45cm One Liberal MP

One Liberal MP

Raman leaning slightly with his right elbow resting upon a chair back

by whose help the Juice is plentifully pressed out of Wood

Royal Family on Balcony at Buckingham Palace

Inscribed verso in ink and pencil 'Monte Murro' and numbered '21'

'L'Orphie' [Garfish Size:S: 60 x 45cm One Liberal MPMarine zoological study showing a side view of the Garfish, or Sea needle, (Belone belone). Plate 6 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. VI.' Peter Ascanius was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1755. Original: copperplate engraving. 1772