'L'Orphie' [Garfish Size:L: 80 x 40cm A controversial and polarizing figure

A controversial and polarizing figure during his early career

This relates to a debate in the House of Commons when the Conservative MP for Buckinghamshire proposed a motion for a Select Committee to sit in judgment on Income Tax and assess if it could not be more equitably levied

accepted taxonomy Chimera monstrosa) with a detail from the head

Original is oil on panel 73x62

'L'Orphie' [Garfish Size:L: 80 x 40cm A controversial and polarizing figureMarine zoological study showing a side view of the Garfish, or Sea needle, (Belone belone). Plate 6 from the book Icones rerum naturalium, ou figures enlumlinees d'histoire naturelle du Nord, by Peter Ascanius, volume 1 (Copenhagen, 1772). Inscribed upper right 'Ic. Rer. Nat. Tab. VI.' Peter Ascanius was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1755. Original: copperplate engraving. 1772