Heart of the Sepia officinalis [Common cuttlefish] Size:L: 80 x 60cm 'The Aristocratic Fate at Cremorne'

'The Aristocratic Fate at Cremorne'

Danny Thomas

'Maids any cunny skins'

and kitchen garden

Heart of the Sepia officinalis [Common cuttlefish] Size:L: 80 x 60cm 'The Aristocratic Fate at Cremorne'Plate 1 from the paper 'An account of the circulation of the blood in the class Vermes of Linnaeus, and the principle explained in which it differs from that in the higher classes', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 107 (1817), pp. 1 12. Posterior view of cuttlefish organs. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. Original: ink on paper. 1816