'gizzard of the Soland goose...' blindness Scale 3 ¢ inches: 40

Scale 3 ¢ inches: 40 miles

red chalk and watercolour on paper

Lance Bombardier Ed Ferguson of Glasgow

onto the pitch for a league match at St James Park

The illustrations correspond to figures 1-2 and 5-6 [although here in a different order] on plate 10 and 11 of the published paper 'Account of several phaenomena observed during the Ingress of Venus into the solar disc' by William Hirst

'gizzard of the Soland goose...' blindness Scale 3 ¢ inches: 40Plate 11 from the paper 'On the different structures and situations of the solvent glands in the digestive organs of birds, according to the nature of their food and particular modes of life', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 102 (1812), pp. 394 404. Section of the gizzard of the Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus). The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso