Cat foetus and placenta mb-height 4364 The Baroque church was designed

The Baroque church was designed by Thomas Archer

Sir Andrew Noble FRS (1831-1915) industrialist and expert in artillery: and to the right

The impoverished Lord Squanderfield has arranged a marriage between his son and the daughter of a wealthy alderman and merchant

The actors

Cat foetus and placenta mb-height 4364 The Baroque church was designedPlate 46 figure 1 from the paper 'On the placenta', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 112 (1822), pp. 401 407. View of the foetus of a cat enclosed within its circular placenta. Outline pencil sketches of figures 2 3 from the same plate are visible to the right of the main image. With publication and plate details inscribed. Not signed. Original: watercolour on paper. 1822