Bottlenose whale mb-artist William_Tassie 'Middle Temple Macaroni'

'Middle Temple Macaroni'

Interior view of the premises of Nathaniel Bentley

with a passage to machinery and a refreshments room

'Jealousy'

13th May 1987

Bottlenose whale mb-artist William_Tassie 'Middle Temple Macaroni'Plate 19 for the paper 'Observations on the structure and oeconomy of whales', by John Hunter, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society vol. 77 part 1 1787 pp. 371 450. View of the animal from its left side. The specimen, apparently a juvenile of twenty one feet in length, 'was caught above London Bridge in the year 1783, and became the property of Alderman Pugh'. Numbered 'IIII'. Not signed. Watermarked 'J Whatman'. Original: ink on paper. 1787