'Figure du Poission nomme Caspilly' Finish:none Pictures taken 19th September 1981

Pictures taken 19th September 1981

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

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Plate 7 from Fossilium Metalla Et Res Metallicas Concernentium Glebae Suis Coloribus Expressae by Casimir Christoph Schmiedel (Nuremberg

'A Young Humanitarian'

'Figure du Poission nomme Caspilly' Finish:none Pictures taken 19th September 1981Figure 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