'The Flamingo' London Stone April 1963

April 1963

Map of Greater London showing the Metropolitan Railways and improvements in 1866

St Paul's Cathedral can be seen in the background

Also showing a figure in military uniform

is trying to catch his hat

'The Flamingo' London Stone April 1963Ornithological study of the Greater Flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus). Plate 31 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. J. Fittler sculp. PHOENICOPTEMS RUBER. THE FLAMINGO. Pubd. as the Act directs. July 2 1792 by I. Parkinson. Leverian Museum.' Original: copperplate engraving. 1792