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

One Liberal MP

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

'Cits Airing Themselves on a Sunday

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

where Arthur Thistlewood an his fellow conspirators met to plot the assassination of the British Cabinet in 1820

'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