A Tapoa Tafa Size:L: 80 x 60cm competing in the 500 mile

competing in the 500 mile race at Monza

Half-length portrait in Royal Naval uniform against a background of sky and clouds

Seventeen figures pasted onto a backing sheet

the central rotor spins when the vanes are exposed to light

A Tapoa Tafa Size:L: 80 x 60cm competing in the 500 mileZoological study of the Brush tailed phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa) a marsupial native to Australia. Plate 58 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales by John White (J. Debrett, London, 1790). The accompanying text states that: 'This animal is the size of a rat, and, has very much the appearance of the martin cat' The plate is inscribed: 'S. Stone delin. A Tapoa Tafa. Published as the Act directs Dec: 29, 1789, by J. Debrett.' Original: