Four specimens of torpedo Size:M: 75 x 50cm Punch takes a light-hearted look

Punch takes a light-hearted look at the world of women's sports

Perspective view of the building used for a firework display in 1749 to commemorate the end of the War of the Austrian Succession

With the royal arms at top left

showing John Bull in fool's cap standing on top of Marble Arch with the new Buckingham Palace behind

Mrs Shirley showing the Queen the Warping machine

Four specimens of torpedo Size:M: 75 x 50cm Punch takes a light-hearted lookMarine biological studies of varieties of the torpedo, or electric ray. Figure 1 Torpedo capensis [modern taxonomy Narke capensis, the Cape numbfish]. Figure 2 Torpedo dipterygia [modern taxonomy Narke dipterygia, the Numbray]. Figure 3 Torpedo timlei [modern taxonomy Narcine timlei, the Blackspotted numbfish]. Figure 4 Torpedo brasiliensis [modern taxonomy Narcine brasiliensis the Brazilian electric ray]. Plate 2 from the monograph Die Gattung