'L'Ammodite' [Lesser sand eel] Size:L: 80 x 40cm Inscribed below: 'The EXPLANATORY Print

Inscribed below: 'The EXPLANATORY Print

Sewell Cornhill

Tom Rakewell is at his morning levee

This pedal Mercedes 28/32 hp was made by Felix Hoddess in 1908 for his son Maurice

This painting forms plate 4 of 'The Thanatophidia of India: being a description of the venomous snakes of the Indian peninsula

'L'Ammodite' [Lesser sand eel] Size:L: 80 x 40cm Inscribed below: 'The EXPLANATORY PrintMarine zological study showing a side view of the Lesser sand eel, or sand lance, (Ammodytes tobianus). Includes an enlarged detail of the head of the fish, lower left. Plate 2 from the book Icones rerum naturalium, ou figures enlumlinees d'histoire naturelle du Nord, by Peter Ascanius, volume 1 (Copenhagen, 1772). Inscribed upper right 'Ic: Rer: Nat: Tab: II.' Peter Ascanius was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1755. Original: copperplate