'Inflammation of the pia mater and tunica arachnoides' Finish:Single Plummet Airlines poster

Plummet Airlines poster

The well-fed and well-clothed appearance of the collector is in stark contrast to the terrible poverty of the family

An allegorical figure of the River Thames is vignetted in the top right

At sea a quadrant can be used to help fix a ship's position and to determine latitude

'Inflammation of the pia mater and tunica arachnoides' Finish:Single Plummet Airlines posterHuman cranium exposed to show the brain and inflammation in two membranes of the meninges (protecting the central nervous system). Plate 3 from the monograph The morbid anatomy of the human brain; being illustrations of the most frequent and important organic diseases to which that viscus is subject, by Robert Hooper (London, Longman, Rees, 1826). Inscribed: 'PLATE III. J. Howship, delt. J. Wedgewood sculpt. INFLAMMATION OF THE PIA MATER and TUNICA