'Water-rat [stomach]' Size:L: 100 x 80cm 10th May 1976

10th May 1976

Aerial view from the south

Dominated by St Paul's Cathedral in London

A cart fords Hackney Brook which crosses Mare Street

usually for civil prisoners such as debtors

'Water-rat [stomach]' Size:L: 100 x 80cm 10th May 1976Plate 6, figure 6 from the paper 'Observations on the structure of the stomachs of different animals', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 97 (1807), pp. 139 179. Showing the inverted stomach of a water rat. The work is inscribed above with plate details and below 'Internal View. Natural Size. Water Rat.' Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. Embossed lower left 'J. Parsons Bristol.' Original: ink on board. 1807