'Water-rat [stomach]' Size:L: 100 x 80cm Twickenham

Twickenham

usually for civil prisoners such as debtors

Peter the 100 year old parrot prefers to eat with a spoon

Aerial view from the south

'Water-rat [stomach]' Size:L: 100 x 80cm TwickenhamPlate 6, figure 6 from the paper 'Observations on the structure of the stomachs of different animals', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 97 (1807), pp. 139 179. Showing the inverted stomach of a water rat. The work is inscribed above with plate details and below 'Internal View. Natural Size. Water Rat.' Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. Embossed lower left 'J. Parsons Bristol.' Original: ink on board. 1807