'...a Turbutt' mb-code 1619988 Monument to Richard Martin

Monument to Richard Martin

Wales and part of Scotland is placed between two groups of allegorical figures

This term for learned woman derives from an eighteenth-century club of literary women in London

North-west view of the Merchant Taylors' Hall and adjoining almshouses

37 du Canard Sauvage

'...a Turbutt' mb-code 1619988 Monument to Richard MartinStudy of a turbot. Inscribed 'Rhombus maximus asper non Squamosus; a Turbutt', with handwritten annotations 'Meridionalibus A Bret Septentrionalibus Forte idem cum Rhombo aculeato Rond [last part illegible]'. Illustration from De historia piscium libri quatuor, by Francis Willughby and John Ray (Oxford, 1686). Original: engraving. 1686