Satire on Vestris mb-code 42-17989020 and 'Teribinthus major betulae cortice'

and 'Teribinthus major betulae cortice'

and had reduced the duty on sugar and fire insurances

Two monks present silkworms smuggled from China to the Byzantine Emperor Justinian

Plate 39 from the paper 'Observations on the changes the egg undergoes during incubation in the common fowl'

It was used to commemorate the ceremonial reception when the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) arrived in London with his bride

Satire on Vestris mb-code 42-17989020 and 'Teribinthus major betulae cortice''Satire on Vestris', 1781. The French dancer Marie Jean Augustin Vestris, known as Auguste Vestris (1760 1842). Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston [pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds], (London, 1905).