'Water-rat [stomach]' Size:L: 100 x 80cm A cart fords Hackney Brook

A cart fords Hackney Brook which crosses Mare Street

Cripplegate

Dominated by St Paul's Cathedral in London

usually for civil prisoners such as debtors

'Water-rat [stomach]' Size:L: 100 x 80cm A cart fords Hackney BrookPlate 6, figure 6 from the paper 'Observations on the structure of the stomachs of different animals', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 97 (1807), pp. 139 179. Showing the inverted stomach of a water rat. The work is inscribed above with plate details and below 'Internal View. Natural Size. Water Rat.' Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. Embossed lower left 'J. Parsons Bristol.' Original: ink on board. 1807