'Laviraia Salv.' mb-code 2591651 Scene depicting the attempt made

Scene depicting the attempt made by Margaret Nicholson to assassinate King George III at the entrance to St James's Palace

Plate 75 from Herbarium Blackwellianum

sheep [figure 4] and goat [figure 5]

One of many satires on Wray's unpopular election proposals to abolish Chelsea Hospital and tax employers of maid-servants

'Laviraia Salv.' mb-code 2591651 Scene depicting the attempt madeStudy of a ray. Inscribed 'Laviraia Salv.', with handwritten annotation 'A kind of Skate or Flair Raja Oxyrhynchus major An Bos antiquorum'. Illustration from De historia piscium libri quatuor, by Francis Willughby and John Ray (Oxford, 1686). Original: engraving. 1686