'Laviraia Salv.' mb-code 2591651 The accompanying printed text notes

The accompanying printed text notes that 'This garden from whence the annexed fourth view is taken

One of many satires on Wray's unpopular election proposals to abolish Chelsea Hospital and tax employers of maid-servants

opposition groups combined to defeat the Bill in March 1859

18th century British naval commander

bottom right inset shows St Mary-le-Bow

'Laviraia Salv.' mb-code 2591651 The accompanying printed text notesStudy of a ray. Inscribed 'Laviraia Salv.', with handwritten annotation 'A kind of Skate or Flair Raja Oxyrhynchus major An Bos antiquorum'. Illustration from De historia piscium libri quatuor, by Francis Willughby and John Ray (Oxford, 1686). Original: engraving. 1686