Polish cochineal insects Size:S: 40 x 30cm 'Milk below Maids'

'Milk below Maids'

view of the premises of Copestake

' The negative number '34865' also appears

Sir John Gerard's chariot

'The Unexpected Visit or more free than welcome'

Polish cochineal insects Size:S: 40 x 30cm 'Milk below Maids'Figures of insects and eggs observed in Poland, Polish cochineal [Porphyrophora polonica] or carmine scales. Inscribed in pencil with instructions to printers. Two sets of drawings mounted on a single backing sheet. Plate 10 from the paper 'Further account of the Polish cochineal', by Nathaniel Matthew Wolfe (1724 1784), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 54 (1764) pp. 95 98. Original: pencil, red chalk and watercolour on paper. 1764