Stomach of the dugong Size:XL: 120 x 100cm with a half mended boot

with a half mended boot in his lap

the press should not only refuse to print the advertisements of such quacks

A small table is visible to the left of picture and there is a curtain or drape in the right-hand background

The Archbishop of Canterbury greets the Japanese Ambassador

Stomach of the dugong Size:XL: 120 x 100cm with a half mended bootPlate 26 from the paper 'Particulars respecting the anatomy of the Dugong, intended as a supplement to Sir T. S. Raffles account of that animal', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 110 (1820), pp. 315 323. Study of the distended stomach of a dungong (Dugong dugon). The work is inscribed with publication and plate details and very faint (erased?) pencil inscriptions below the main figure. Not signed. Royal Society