'Leaf cutter ants and spider' Chamberlain's Wharf 'Buy a Fork or a

'Buy a Fork or a Fire Shovel'

Their hair accessories also match their dresses

the drinking habits of the lower classes was subject to a great deal of discussion and argument during the 1860s and 1870s

Elizabeth of Woodville

'Leaf cutter ants and spider' Chamberlain's Wharf 'Buy a Fork or aStudy of leaf cutter ants, a tarantula spider and other South American insects. Detail from plate 18 of the book Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, in qua Erucae ac Vermes Surinamenses, cum omnibus suis transformationibus by Maria Sibylla Merian (Amsterdam, 1705). The entomologist and artist Maria Sibylla Merian travelled to Surinam in South America from 1699 1701, where she recorded and collected butterflies and other natural history specimens.