The 'rice-bird' Poor Law Board ' Inscribed below: 'AGARICUS (AMARNITA)

' Inscribed below: 'AGARICUS (AMARNITA) STRANGULATUS

Lord Russell - usually depicted as a small boy - thumbs his nose just as a small boy would at the visiting 'ladies'

Queen Street

One of their key aims was to champion the cause of the traditional aristocracy in order to promote in turn their championing of the working classes

View of the Old Goat and Compasses Inn on Marylebone Road

The 'rice-bird' Poor Law Board ' Inscribed below: 'AGARICUS (AMARNITA)Bird identified by Catesby as 'Hortulanus caroliniensis', the rice bird (modern scientific name: Dolichonyx oryzivorus, the bobolink), perched on a stalk of rice, Oryza sativa. Plate 14 from volume I of The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, by Mark Catesby (London, 1731). Mark Catesby was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1733. Original: etching. 1731