Abraham Trembley and pupils collecting hydra Isleworth 'The Thames During the Great

'The Thames During the Great Frost of 1739'

Mr Punch plays Macbeth to the three witches who represent the Emperors of Germany

View of the entrance to Dean's Court

she now had no real ruler

Abraham Trembley and pupils collecting hydra Isleworth 'The Thames During the GreatLandscape view showing the naturalist Abraham Trembley collecting specimens from a moat or canal, using a net. His two pupils, the sons of Count Willem Bentinck (1704 1774) sit beside him with a dog behind. The water feature is within a waled and tree lined garden at Zorgvlied near the Hague in the Netherlands. Vignette from Memoires pour server a l'histoire d'un genre de polypes d'eau douce by Abraham Trembley (Leiden, 1744), p. 149. The plate is