'The American Water-Rail' [Virginia rail] mb-code 2319698 View of the Savoy Chapel

View of the Savoy Chapel

and relates to the Conservative banquet given in Disraeli's honour at the Edinburgh Corn Exchange

the wharfs and the end of Waterloo Bridge

Or A Vision of 1869'

the King renounced his claim to the Spanish throne for himself

'The American Water-Rail' [Virginia rail] mb-code 2319698 View of the Savoy ChapelOrnithological study of the Virginia rail Rallus limicola from North America, posed on a bank by the waterside. Plate 279 from chapter 69 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c, by George Edwards, volume 2 (London, for the author, 1760). The plate is inscribed: 'The American Water Rail, Etched from Nature of the bigness of life. George Edwards Delin. et Sculp: AD 1757.' Original: etching. 1757