Grampus [Killer whale] mb-code 00379843 Direct from the Cow

Direct from the Cow

'The Gathering of the Eagles'

'Balaklava Looking Towards the Sea'

Fleetwood (died 1692) commanded a regiment in the New Model Army during the English civil war

Grampus [Killer whale] mb-code 00379843 Direct from the CowPlate 16 for the paper 'Observations on the structure and oeconomy of whales', by John Hunter, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society vol. 77 part 1 1787 pp. 371 450. View of a twenty four foot long male cetacean, showing its left side. According to the Hunter 'it was caught in the mouth of the river Thames, in the year 1759, and brought up to Westminster Bridge in a barge'. Numbered 'I'. Not signed. Original: ink on paper. 1787