'The White Fulica' Size:S: 36 x 28cm two onlookers

two onlookers

Ashburnham House was purchased by Westminster School in 1882

Interior view of the Grand Staircase in Charterhouse

All Hallows-by-the-Tower Church

'The White Fulica' Size:S: 36 x 28cm two onlookersOrnithological study of a Lord Howe Swamphen or White Gallinule (Porphyrio albus), an extinct bird native to Lord Howe Island, Australia. Plate 27 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales by John White (J. Debrett, London, 1790). The accompanying text states that: 'The body is about the size of a domestic fowl. The shoulders are furnished with a small crooked spine This bird is the only species of its genus yet known of a white colour' The plate is