A crocodile skeleton in the Royal Society's Repository Size:XXL: 150 x 75cm by Patrick Wilson in a

by Patrick Wilson in a letter from Nevil Maskelyne

as the picture shows

with all the unfinished business of the long parliamentary session under his arms

Original is oil on canvas 92

A crocodile skeleton in the Royal Society's Repository Size:XXL: 150 x 75cm by Patrick Wilson in aStudies of a 'Skeleton of a Crocodile or the Leviathan' ('Given by Sir Robert Southwell; to whom it was sent from the East Indies'); 'An Elephant's Tusk'; a 'Rattle Snak's Tail' (the rattle of a rattlesnake); and 'The Wesan' (windpipe) of a crocodile. Table 4 from the book Musaeum Regalis Societatis; or, A catalogue and description of the natural and artificial rarities belonging to the Royal Society, and preserved at Gresham Colledge, by Nehemiah