Bluebottle fly and Fever-fly legs chimneypiece swapping coal for the wine

swapping coal for the wine being offered to him by Louis Napoleon

You Cannot Doubt Which is The Right Man for Italy

'The Real Irish Court

'Le Francois a Londres'

Bluebottle fly and Fever-fly legs chimneypiece swapping coal for the winePlate 18 figures 1 11 from the paper 'Farther observations on the feet of animals whose progressive motion can be carried on against gravity', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 106 (1816), pp. 322 330. Eleven views and details of legs from the Bluebottle (Musca vomitoria) and Fever fly (Bibio febrilis) at x100 and x6,400 magnification. Signed lower left 'Franz Bauer'. Royal Society stamp verso, with an inscription