'Eagle [solvent gland]' mb-code 00347833 one smoking a pipe

one smoking a pipe

with somewhat lengthened tail

he had written an article on Ritualism and his opposition to it

taking lunch in a restaurant

'Eagle [solvent gland]' mb-code 00347833 one smoking a pipeDetail, plate 17, from the paper 'On the different structures and situations of the solvent glands in the digestive organs of birds, according to the nature of their food and particular modes of life', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 102 (1812), pp. 394 404. The work is inscribed above with date and plate details above and right 'Eagle.' Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. Partial watermark '[ ? ]sell [18]10.'