Coagulated human blood and crystals Finish:Single Tightrope Walker

Tightrope Walker

riding along Leadenhall Street

helmet and orb in the lower border

*** Local Caption *** 15th February 1973

on the east side of St Martin's le Grand' showing figures sorting mail

Coagulated human blood and crystals Finish:Single Tightrope WalkerPlate 1 from the Croonian Lecture paper 'A farther investigation of the component parts of the blood', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 110 (1820), pp. 1 10. Section through an 'anuerismal tumor' with two views of crystalized salts under magnification. Figure 1 appearing here on the bottom of the plate was moved in the published version, the subject of a pencilled note to the engraver, lower left: 'NB Figure 1 to