Bottlenose whale mb-artist William_Tassie 13th May 1987

13th May 1987

Interior view of the premises of Nathaniel Bentley

2nd June 1964

coat and waistcoat and holding a book

OPS Burton with students in the Appollo pub in Oxford going through some of the script

Bottlenose whale mb-artist William_Tassie 13th May 1987Plate 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