Seal skull mb-artist Ippyotei_Ashiyuki holding his other leg behind

holding his other leg behind his head

11th May 1970

showing two labouring figures and a man on a ladder watching the activity

the one on the right is like that worn by macaronis

the blackcap fly-catcher

Seal skull mb-artist Ippyotei_Ashiyuki holding his other leg behindPlate 27 from the paper 'On the difference in the appearence of the teeth and the shape of the skull in different species of seals', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 112 (1822), pp. 239 240. Side view of the skull of a seal 'from the South Seas' in the collections of the British Museum. Signed lower left 'Willm. Clift delin 1803'. Original: watercolour on board. 1803