Earthworm Size:S: 36 x 28cm Original is oil on canvas

Original is oil on canvas 76x91

It had previously been barred by the Crimes Act (Ireland)

2nd June 1964

became the London residence of the Duke of Wellington when he acquired it in 1817

Earthworm Size:S: 36 x 28cm Original is oil on canvasPlate 16 from the paper 'On the double organs of generation of the lamprey, the conger eel, the common eel, the barnacle, and the earthworm, which impregnate themselves; though the last from copulating, appear mutually to impregnate one another', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 113 (1823), pp. 140 151. Figure 1 shows a back view of the earthworm, x2 magnification; figure 2 shows the same worm under dissection, x2