'Rhea americana [gizzard]' Size:L: 80 x 60cm View near Putney

View near Putney

'A Degenerate Daughter'

Scene outside the Tower of London

View of King's Bench Prison in St George's Fields

'Rhea americana [gizzard]' Size:L: 80 x 60cm View near PutneyPlate 15, from the paper 'On the different structures and situations of the solvent glands in the digestive organs of birds, according to the nature of their food and particular modes of life', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 102 (1812), pp. 394 404. Internal view of the cardiac cavity and gizzard of the Rhea, quarter scale. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details and upper right 'Rhea