'Lychnidea Caroliniana floribus...' mb-artist Sayle a member of the King's

a member of the King's Privy Council

loaded with gunpowder

A poem in Punch

Before the bonfire is lit the children and nursesplay ring-a-roses round the base which is 50 yards round

View from the River Thames with boats and passengers on the river

'Lychnidea Caroliniana floribus...' mb-artist Sayle a member of the King'sBotanical study of Phlox carolina, described by John Martyn in the Historia Plantarum Rariorum (1728 ) and reproduced there as plate 9, (sponsored by Johann Caspar Scheutzer). From a specimen grown at Chelsea Physic Garden, probably from originals gathered by Mark Catesby. Inscribed in ink 'Lychnidea Caroliniana foribus quasi umbellatim dispositis folio lucidis crassis acutus, Martyn. H. R. P. D.' Not signed. Watermarked 'LVG.' Original: watercolour