'Nutmeg Trees' Finish:20-pack Cottage erected in St James's

Cottage erected in St James's Park for the Ornithological Society of London

apparently in the President's Office of the Royal Society at Carlton House Terrace

Edward Cardwell

Portrait of a man in Elizabethan dress with a lace ruff and beard

'Nutmeg Trees' Finish:20-pack Cottage erected in St James'sBotanical study of the nutmeg tree. Figures can be seen in the background walking amongst further nutmeg trees against a mountainous backdrop. Plate from the book An embassy from the East India Company of the United Provinces to the Grand Tartar Cham, Emperour of China., by John Nieuhoff (London, 1669). John Nieuhoff (1618 1672), Dutch traveller, was appointed steward of the mission to China under Peter van Goyer and Jacob van Keyser, ambassadors of