Stag's Horn Fungus Size:XS: 30 x 20cm Portrait of Johanna Staude

Portrait of Johanna Staude

'The loyal banker or Old Georgy taking Ransom'

incisors and canines

View of the City of London and St Paul's Cathedral from Bankside

A road can be sen at the left hand side of the scene

Stag's Horn Fungus Size:XS: 30 x 20cm Portrait of Johanna StaudePlate 2 figure 1 from the paper 'An account of a new species of fungus', by John Martyn, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 43 (1744) pp. 263 264. The specimen, classified by John Martyn as 'Boletus caule ramose', was most likely Stag's Horn fungus, [Xylaria hypoxylon]. An endorsement verso 'Jan 24 1744 45' indicates that this painting was shown to Fellows of the Royal Society at a meeting of the Royal Society on 24 January 1745.