'Figure du Poission nomme Caspilly' Finish:none View over the dam of

View over the dam of the Serpentine towards the Great Exhibition building of 1851

East India House

'A Young Humanitarian'

and after his death in 1781 it was bought by the Barclay establishment

'Figure du Poission nomme Caspilly' Finish:none View over the dam ofFigure of a Caspilly, a mythological sea beast, in a seascape that includes a whale and small boats. The animal is shown being hunted from boats and by archers from the sea shore. Illustration from Discours d'Ambroise Pare a scavoir, de la mumie, de la licorne, des venins, et de la peste, avec une table des plus notables matieres contenues esdit discours (chez Gabriel Buon, Paris, 1582), f. 29. Ambroise Par (c. 1510 1590) was a French barber surgeon