The human eardrum illustrator is inspecting members of Coventry's

is inspecting members of Coventry's Warden Service in Broadgate during his visit to Coventry

View with figures outside the gates

Come to Grief

in a game of cards with Palmerston

The human eardrum illustrator is inspecting members of Coventry'sPlate 3 figures 1 2 from the paper 'On the difference of structure between the human Membrana Tympani and that of the elephant', by Sir Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 113 (1823), pp. 23 26. Figure 1 shows the eardrum at natural size; figure 2 under magnification. Inscribed with publication and plate details. Inscribed verso: 'Lecture 9 Pl. I. ' Signed in ink lower left 'W. Clift.' Royal Society stamp verso.