'Crested or Coped Black Vulture, and the Black and White Indian Snake' Richmond upon Thames Bill Foulkes

Bill Foulkes

bearing rolls of cloth

Above is King George III's coat of arms prior to 1816

the couple of the left gallop over a pair of pigs and are chased by a dog

'Crested or Coped Black Vulture, and the Black and White Indian Snake' Richmond upon Thames Bill FoulkesZoological study of a Cinerous vulture Aegypius monachus with a specimen of Asian snake. Plate 290 from chapter 80 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c, by George Edwards, volume 2 (London, for the author, 1760). The plate is inscribed: 'The crested or coped black Vulture, and the Black and white Indian Snake boath drawn from lie, by G. Edwards,' A second, mirrored inscription provides the date