'The Horned Fish; and the Sea Scorpion' [Longhorn cowfish and Short-spined sea scorpion] Size:XL: 100 x 75cm With pencilled instructions to printers

With pencilled instructions to printers 'a careful shaded view omitting outside the lines'

Jackie Charlton and Nobby Stiles

pictured outside ground

Original is oil on canvas 51 x 40

'The Horned Fish; and the Sea Scorpion' [Longhorn cowfish and Short-spined sea scorpion] Size:XL: 100 x 75cm With pencilled instructions to printersMarine zoological studies of two fishes: the Longhorn cowfish Lactoria cornuta, a main image with two uncoloured views of the upper body and underside; with a view of a female Short spined sea scorpion Myoxocephalus scorpius shown with roe or eggs. Plate 284 from chapter 74 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c, by George Edwards, volume 2 (London, for the author, 1760). The plate is inscribed: