Culex pipiens (common house mosquito) - emerging (b3) mb-artistname William Webb looking across the River Thames

looking across the River Thames

Interior view of the Guildhall during the inauguration dinner of Sir John Key as Lord Mayor of London in 1830 in the presence of King William IV and Queen Adelaide

children and a servant gathered round a drinking well

The illustrations correspond to figures 1-2 and 5-6 [although here in a different order] on plate 10 and 11 of the published paper 'Account of several phaenomena observed during the Ingress of Venus into the solar disc' by William Hirst

The disease was of eighteen month's duration

Culex pipiens (common house mosquito) - emerging (b3) mb-artistname William Webb looking across the River Thames