Inhabitants of the Sandwich Islands Finish:Float frame 'Newton investigating light'

'Newton investigating light'

Plate 28 from the paper 'On the difference in the appearence of the teeth and the shape of the skull in different species of seals'

attending to the stout gentleman

Comedian Billy Connolly from Glasgow who has now hit the big time opens in London for a week in his own one man show

It is an allusion to City and society scandals

Inhabitants of the Sandwich Islands Finish:Float frame 'Newton investigating light''Inhabitants of the Sandwich Islands', 1848. Natives of what is now known as Hawaii. An engraving from the Natural History of Man, by James Cowles Prichard, (Hippolyte Bailliere, London, third edition, 1848).