Fish and starfish in the Royal Society's Repository Size:L: 90 x 60cm showing crowds gathered to watch

showing crowds gathered to watch a hanging

' This painting is reproduced as part of Catalogus plantarum

with the River Thames on the right

The models ranged from light 10

Peacock is dressed soberly

Fish and starfish in the Royal Society's Repository Size:L: 90 x 60cm showing crowds gathered to watchStudies of a 'Square Acarauna' (brought from Surinam, and known by mariners as 'The Old Wife'); a 'Mailed Fish of Brasile' (Brazil) 'Cataphractus Schonveldii' in Grew's description; upper and lower views of a 'Smooth Star Fish or Sea Pad, Stella marina laevior sent from the East Indies'; and a 'Crowned Star Fish. Stella marina coronalis taken in the Danish Sea'. Table 8 from the book Musaeum Regalis Societatis; or, A catalogue and description of the