'A Feather of the Cassowary' Size:XL: 100 x 80cm Thiers' position as President had

Thiers' position as President had become impossible

Prince Charles and Princess Diana stand on the balcony of Buckingham Palace

East elevation of the Church of St Paul

c1857-1903

'A Feather of the Cassowary' Size:XL: 100 x 80cm Thiers' position as President hadStudies of a cassowary feather and native Australian fish hooks. The latter are represented as: Figure A 'of a hard black, wood like substance'; and Figure B 'a hook of mother of pearl'. Plate 62 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales by John White (J. Debrett, London, 1790). The accompanying text states that: 'The feathers of the New Holland Cassowary are of a remarkable construction It seems incapable of resisting water, or of holding air.' The