Two specimens of fern leaf Cavendish-Bentinck 'Disembarkation of the Expedition to

'Disembarkation of the Expedition to Kertch at Kamish Bournou'

for Clapham Junction'

The panels in the bottom corners show Westminster Abbey (left) and the old St Paul's Cathedral (right)

View of Westminster and the City of London

The scene shows local geology

Two specimens of fern leaf Cavendish-Bentinck 'Disembarkation of the Expedition toA photogenic drawing of two plant specimens, the leaves placed on sensitized paper and exposed to sunlight. Inscribed above in ink: 'An early attempt at Photography from Norwich.' Apparently, an early use of the process developed by William Henry Fox Talbot FRS (1800 1877). The naturalist and geologist Caleb Burrell Rose (1790 1872) in whose papers this image is preserved, practised as a surgeon in Swaffham, Norfolk, 1816 c. 1859.