'Le Maquereau' [Atlantic mackerel] Finish:Stretched Perspective view of the building

Perspective view of the building used for a firework display in 1749 to commemorate the end of the War of the Austrian Succession

edited by Adam Olearius (Schlesswig

The paper was read before the Royal Society on 27 May 1736

Bawds and pickpockets around a trader at Covent Garden piazza

mirrored inscription provides the date of 'September 16 1757'

'Le Maquereau' [Atlantic mackerel] Finish:Stretched Perspective view of the buildingMarine zoological study showing a side view of the Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus). Plate 3 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. III.' Peter Ascanius was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1755. Original: copperplate engraving. 1772