'The Puffin, and the Razor-bill' Size:M: 75 x 60cm A 1996 Williams-Renault FW18

A 1996 Williams-Renault FW18

'Palmerston selling off'

muriate of soda

Thiers had been a major political figure in French politics for some forty years

'The Puffin, and the Razor-bill' Size:M: 75 x 60cm A 1996 Williams-Renault FW18Ornithological studies of an Atlantic Puffin Fratercula arctica (Figure 1) and a Razorbill Alca torda (Figure 2). Both are shown in the sea, with line profile studies of their heads. Plate 358 from chapter 148 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c, by George Edwards, volume 3 (London, for the author, 1764). The plate is inscribed: 'Fig. I Anas Arctica, the Puffin or Coulternel. Fig. II Alca