Guinea pig and 'Maltese mushroom' from Linnaeus's 'Academic delights' Size:L: 100 x 80cm 'Europe in masquerade

'Europe in masquerade

View of The Observatory in Southwark

has poked one of the horns of his tray in the eye of a passer by

Referred to in the text as 'The Cacajao'

his right hand holding a pen and resting on a table poised above on a sheaf of paper

Guinea pig and 'Maltese mushroom' from Linnaeus's 'Academic delights' Size:L: 100 x 80cm 'Europe in masqueradeGuinea pig (Mus porcellus) from thesis LIX by Johanes Just. Nauman, 1754, and Fungus melitensis from thesis LXV on the 'Maltese mushroom' by Johanne Pfeiffer, 1755, published in volume 4 of Amoenitates academicae (Stockholm, 1759). Amoenitates academicae ('Academic delights', 10 volumes, 1749 1790) was published in Carl Linnaeus's name, and edited by him (vols 1 7) and J C D Schreber (vols 8 10). It consisted of theses presented and defended by