Great diving beetle legs Size:L: 90 x 60cm The Duke of Wellington riding

The Duke of Wellington riding past the Achilles statue in Hyde Park

Jim Clark at the Austrian Grand Prix

with his team of 'brigands' hiding under the table

with the Lord Mayor on the far left in his coach

Great diving beetle legs Size:L: 90 x 60cm The Duke of Wellington ridingPlate 20 figures 1 16 from the paper 'Farther observations on the feet of animals whose progressive motion can be carried on against gravity', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 106 (1816), pp. 322 330. Sixteen views and details of legs from a male specimen of the Great diving beetle (Dytiscus marginalis) at x25, x100, x400, x900 and x40,000 magnification. Signed lower left 'Franz Bauer'. Royal Society stamp verso.