Grampus [Killer whale] mb-code 00379843 Direct from the Cow

Direct from the Cow

Mohammad-Reza Shah Pahlavi

View of houses from the top of a pier on London Bridge

(his future home - still under construction)

Grampus [Killer whale] mb-code 00379843 Direct from the CowPlate 16 for the paper 'Observations on the structure and oeconomy of whales', by John Hunter, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society vol. 77 part 1 1787 pp. 371 450. View of a twenty four foot long male cetacean, showing its left side. According to the Hunter 'it was caught in the mouth of the river Thames, in the year 1759, and brought up to Westminster Bridge in a barge'. Numbered 'I'. Not signed. Original: ink on paper. 1787