'Le Roi des Harengs' [Oarfish] Size:XL: 100 x 70cm and below 'Turkey's Gizzard Natural

and below 'Turkey's Gizzard Natural Size

View of Charles Street with figures working in the foreground

lower right '1/-'

pictured in her room at Claridge's Hotel in London

'Le Roi des Harengs' [Oarfish] Size:XL: 100 x 70cm and below 'Turkey's Gizzard NaturalMarine zoological study showing a side view of the Oarfish or 'King of Herrings' (Regalecus glesne). Plate 11 from the book Icones rerum naturalium, ou figures enlumlinees d'histoire naturelle du Nord, by Peter Ascanius, volume 1 (Copenhagen, 1772). Inscribed lower left 'Ic. Rer. Nat. Tab. XI.' Peter Ascanius was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1755. Original: copperplate engraving. 1772