'Harlequin beetle on citron fruit' Ken a citizen in Smithfield Market

a citizen in Smithfield Market finds himself between two enraged bulls

league match at The Dell

is holding up Lot 1

This painting forms part of plate 10 of 'The Thanatophidia of India: being a description of the venomous snakes of the Indian peninsula

'Harlequin beetle on citron fruit' Ken a citizen in Smithfield MarketStudy of a harlequin beetle (Acrocinus longimanus) on a citron fruit (Cirtus medica) with, elsewhere, a moth in stages of development. Plate 28 from the book Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, in qua Erucae ac Vermes Surinamenses, cum omnibus suis transformationibus by Maria Sibylla Merian (Amsterdam, 1705). Inscribed lower left: 'J. Mulder Sculp.', and with annotations by Sir Hans Sloane (1660 1753) The entomologist and artist Maria Sibylla