'Yellow-legged ascalaphus' [Yellow owl-fly] Finish:Rolled the other an 'imbecile'

the other an 'imbecile'

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View of the City of London and St Paul's Cathedral from Bankside

he represents the average husband whose pockets are emptied in order to maintain his wife in the latest fashion

'Yellow-legged ascalaphus' [Yellow owl-fly] Finish:Rolled the other an 'imbecile'Entomological study of the Yellow owl fly Suhpalacsa flavipes an insect native to Australia. Plate 20 from The zoological miscellany; being a description of new, or interesting animals, by William Elford Leach, volume 1 (London, 1815). The plate is inscribed: 'Drawn Engraved & Published by R. P. Nodder. 1814.' William Elford Leach (1790 1836) British naturalist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1816. Original: copperplate engraving. 1814