Guinea pig and 'Maltese mushroom' from Linnaeus's 'Academic delights' Size:L: 100 x 80cm View looking north showing the

View looking north showing the backs of houses in Botolph Lane and George Lane

showing the trying of prisoners at the Bar

Referred to in the text as 'The Cacajao'

has poked one of the horns of his tray in the eye of a passer by

This was a period during which the newly burgeoning middle classes had few problems in engaging servants

Guinea pig and 'Maltese mushroom' from Linnaeus's 'Academic delights' Size:L: 100 x 80cm View looking north showing theGuinea pig (Mus porcellus) from thesis LIX by Johanes Just. Nauman, 1754, and Fungus melitensis from thesis LXV on the 'Maltese mushroom' by Johanne Pfeiffer, 1755, published in volume 4 of Amoenitates academicae (Stockholm, 1759). Amoenitates academicae ('Academic delights', 10 volumes, 1749 1790) was published in Carl Linnaeus's name, and edited by him (vols 1 7) and J C D Schreber (vols 8 10). It consisted of theses presented and defended by