'Paon Rouge' [Cuckoo wrasse] Size:XL: 120 x 60cm Westminster Hall and Whitehall

Westminster Hall and Whitehall

or the London Almanack for 1921

CANIS LUPUS

The driver is wearing a motoring coat

Embossed upper right 'Bristol Paper

'Paon Rouge' [Cuckoo wrasse] Size:XL: 120 x 60cm Westminster Hall and WhitehallMarine zoological study showing a side view of a juvenile, or more likely female, Cuckoo wrasse (Labrus mixtus). Plate 13 from the book Icones rerum naturalium, ou figures enlumlinees d'histoire naturelle du Nord, by Peter Ascanius, volume 1 (Copenhagen, 1772). Inscribed in ink, upper right 'Tab. XIII' Peter Ascanius was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1755. Original: copperplate engraving. 1772