'L'Orphie' [Garfish Size:L: 80 x 40cm A woman street seller

A woman street seller

the verse 'The Dutch Bubblers'

The building is on the site of the former residence of the Bishops of London

This relates to a debate in the House of Commons when the Conservative MP for Buckinghamshire proposed a motion for a Select Committee to sit in judgment on Income Tax and assess if it could not be more equitably levied

'L'Orphie' [Garfish Size:L: 80 x 40cm A woman street sellerMarine zoological study showing a side view of the Garfish, or Sea needle, (Belone belone). Plate 6 from the book Icones rerum naturalium, ou figures enlumlinees d'histoire naturelle du Nord, by Peter Ascanius, volume 1 (Copenhagen, 1772). Inscribed upper right 'Ic. Rer. Nat. Tab. VI.' Peter Ascanius was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1755. Original: copperplate engraving. 1772