Great diving beetle legs Size:L: 90 x 60cm people come and go

people come and go

with the Lord Mayor on the far left in his coach

The Rose Tavern

St Luke's Hospital

The building is on the site of the former residence of the Bishops of London

Great diving beetle legs Size:L: 90 x 60cm people come and goPlate 20 figures 1 16 from the paper 'Farther observations on the feet of animals whose progressive motion can be carried on against gravity', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 106 (1816), pp. 322 330. Sixteen views and details of legs from a male specimen of the Great diving beetle (Dytiscus marginalis) at x25, x100, x400, x900 and x40,000 magnification. Signed lower left 'Franz Bauer'. Royal Society stamp verso.