Four 'humanoid' figures from Linnaeus's 'Academic delights' motor racing Mahomed Caratha was an equilibrist

Mahomed Caratha was an equilibrist

Original is oil on canvas 92x79

On picture in background are the letters SPQL standing for Senatus populusque Londoniensis

'Sir Edwin Cornwall'

Four 'humanoid' figures from Linnaeus's 'Academic delights' motor racing Mahomed Caratha was an equilibristFour 'humanoid' figures: (L R) Troglodyta Bontu, Lucifer Aldrovandi, Satyrus Tulpii and Pygmaeus Edwardi from thesis CV 'Anthropomorpha' by Christianus Emmanuel Hoppius, 1760, published in volume 6 of Amoenitates academicae (Stockholm, 1763). Amoenitates academicae ('Academic delights', 10 volumes, 1749 1790) was published in Carl Linnaeus's name, and edited by him (vols 1 7) and J C D Schreber (vols 8 10). It consisted of theses presented and