Ovaries of an American Opossum Size:XS: 40 x 30cm Two designs side by side:

Two designs side by side: in the first Lord Duncannon and Lord Erskine are shown in conference

Derek 'Lek' Leckenby

represent wisdom

with long side whiskers

Ovaries of an American Opossum Size:XS: 40 x 30cm Two designs side by side:Plate 17 from the paper 'On the ova of the different tribes of Opossum and Ornithorhynchus', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 109 (1819), pp. 234 240. Eight figures of magnified and sectioned overies of animals at different ages. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Signed lower left 'Franz Bauer.' Royal Society stamp verso. Original: ink on paper. 1819