Bottlenose whale Day & Son Monument of John of Gaunt

Monument of John of Gaunt and Constance of Castile

or Prparations (Preparations) for Lord-Mayor's Day

Parliament was still sitting

'The Next Sweet Thing à La Porcupine

Bottlenose whale Day & Son Monument of John of GauntPlate 19 for the paper 'Observations on the structure and oeconomy of whales', by John Hunter, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society vol. 77 part 1 1787 pp. 371 450. View of the animal from its left side. The specimen, apparently a juvenile of twenty one feet in length, 'was caught above London Bridge in the year 1783, and became the property of Alderman Pugh'. Numbered 'IIII'. Not signed. Watermarked 'J Whatman'. Original: ink on paper. 1787