Argonaut shell and eggs Size:XXL: 150 x 100cm Originally designed as a sailing

Originally designed as a sailing vessel she was converted to screw propulsion during construction

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a kite and a dog on the grass with the buildings of the Royal Military Academy in the background

Edwards Aug 7 1761

Argonaut shell and eggs Size:XXL: 150 x 100cm Originally designed as a sailingPlate 14 from the paper 'The distinguishing characters between the ova of the Sepia, and those of the vermes testacea, that live in water, explained', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 107 (1817), pp. 297 301. Specimen of argonaut collected by John Cranch (1758 1816), possibly the Ocythoe cranchii [Argonauta hians] described in the same volume of Transactions by William Elford Leach. Seven figures including the