'The American Water-Rail' [Virginia rail] mb-code 2319698 Buste de femme en costume

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and relates to the Conservative banquet given in Disraeli's honour at the Edinburgh Corn Exchange

View of the Savoy Chapel

the wharfs and the end of Waterloo Bridge

'The American Water-Rail' [Virginia rail] mb-code 2319698 Buste de femme en costumeOrnithological study of the Virginia rail Rallus limicola from North America, posed on a bank by the waterside. Plate 279 from chapter 69 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c, by George Edwards, volume 2 (London, for the author, 1760). The plate is inscribed: 'The American Water Rail, Etched from Nature of the bigness of life. George Edwards Delin. et Sculp: AD 1757.' Original: etching. 1757