'Figure d'un Elephant de Mer' mb-code 2489648 Peter Osgood (Chelsea)

Peter Osgood (Chelsea)

Referred to in the text as 'The Cacajao'

Blackpool Tower with people sitting on Blackpool Beach LAFjan05 January 1st Building of the famous Blackpool Tower in England is completed 1894

barn originally built to hold tithes paid in kind and common in England

wearing a black coat

'Figure d'un Elephant de Mer' mb-code 2489648 Peter Osgood (Chelsea)Figure of a walrus, viewed from the side. 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. 28. Ambroise Par (c. 1510 1590) was a French barber surgeon and anatomist who served several Kings of France. Original: woodcut engraving. 1582