'Figure du Poission nomme Caspilly' Finish:none Plan of the shop fronts

Plan of the shop fronts on Old and New Bond Street

East India House

View over the dam of the Serpentine towards the Great Exhibition building of 1851

Both the landlord and his female companion appear to be shocked by what they can see

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

'Figure du Poission nomme Caspilly' Finish:none Plan of the shop frontsFigure 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