'Thinocorus rumicivorus' [Least seedsnipe] Battle of Poltava 26th May 1966

26th May 1966

The game finished in a 2-0 defeat for United

showing the inside of a theatre and the reactions of different parts of the audience to the play

Original is oil on canvas 213

'Thinocorus rumicivorus' [Least seedsnipe] Battle of Poltava 26th May 1966Ornithological study of the Least seedsnipe (Thinocorus rumivorus) a grassland bird of South America. A pair of birds is shown, male and female. Plate 2 from the book Zoologischer Atlas, enthaltend Abbildungen und Beschreibungen neuer Thierarten wahrend des Flottcapitains von Kotzebue zweiter Reise um die Welt, by Friedrich Eschscholtz (Berlin, 1829). Inscribed 'E. Bomer del. J. Gumpel jun. Sc. Thinocorus rumicivorus.' Johann Friedrich Eschscholtz