St John's Gate, Clerkenwell, London Size:M: 75 x 50cm Copy of plate 9 from

Copy of plate 9 from Testacea microscopica aliaque minuta ex generibus Argonauta et Nautilu

This sphinx is thought to date from the 18th or 19th dynasty of Ancient Egypt (c14th-13th century BC)

With a dedication and description beneath

and printing and dying

St John's Gate, Clerkenwell, London Size:M: 75 x 50cm Copy of plate 9 fromSt John's Gate, Clerkenwell, London, c1920s. The gate was built in 1504 by Thomas Docwra, prior of the Priory of the Knights of Saint John. It served as the south entrance to the inner precinct. Part of the building is now used as a museum of the Knights Hospitallers and the St John's Ambulance Brigade. Cigarette card produced by the Westminster Tobacco Co Ltd, The second series of British royal and ancient buildings.