Vertebrae and ribs of a boa constrictor mb-code 1959-0092 Covent Garden with election hustings

Covent Garden with election hustings in the background

Also showing a great variety of water craft on the river

three occur under similar circumstances

View of nos 164-165 Strand

Vertebrae and ribs of a boa constrictor mb-code 1959-0092 Covent Garden with election hustingsPlate 6 from the paper 'Observations intended to show that the progressive motion of snakes is partly performed by means of the ribs', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 102 (1812), pp. 163 168. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. Original: ink on paper. 1812