'The Gerbua' [Greater Egyptian jerboa] Scriptwriter which is burning down houses

which is burning down houses representing Germany and France

Grand Union Canal lock keeper

Chancellor of England

Mr Bull remains sceptical

'The Gerbua' [Greater Egyptian jerboa] Scriptwriter which is burning down housesZoological study of a Greater Egyptian jerboa (Jaculus orientalis). The desert rodent is shown against a landscape of pyramids and antiquities. Behind are two other jerboas, one in the act of jumping, the other eating an ear of grain. Plate 219 from chapter 9 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c, by George Edwards, volume 1 (London, for the author, 1758). The plate is variously inscribed,