'gizzard of the Soland goose...' blindness Interior view of the Court

Interior view of the Court of Wards and Liveries

The illustrations correspond to figures 1-2 and 5-6 [although here in a different order] on plate 10 and 11 of the published paper 'Account of several phaenomena observed during the Ingress of Venus into the solar disc' by William Hirst

'Sweet China Oranges

red chalk and watercolour on paper

'gizzard of the Soland goose...' blindness Interior view of the CourtPlate 11 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. Section of the gizzard of the Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus). The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso