'Crested or Coped Black Vulture, and the Black and White Indian Snake' Richmond upon Thames bearing rolls of cloth

bearing rolls of cloth

Above is King George III's coat of arms prior to 1816

and the Black and white Indian Snake boath drawn from lie

View through the gateway of the Royal College of Physicians

'Crested or Coped Black Vulture, and the Black and White Indian Snake' Richmond upon Thames bearing rolls of clothZoological study of a Cinerous vulture Aegypius monachus with a specimen of Asian snake. Plate 290 from chapter 80 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: 'The crested or coped black Vulture, and the Black and white Indian Snake boath drawn from lie, by G. Edwards,' A second, mirrored inscription provides the date