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'The Sea-Bat; and the Pyed Acarauna' Finish:Single Standing with father David Snr

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Standing with father David Snr

a monkey sits on the floor in the foreground

includes the lines

the inn was the meeting place of the pilgrims in Chaucers 'Canterbury Tales'

(a play on words as gunpowder is also a kind of tea

'The Sea-Bat; and the Pyed Acarauna' Finish:Single Standing with father David SnrMarine zoological studies of two fishes. Figures 1 3 are three views of the Longnose batfish, Ogcocephalus corniger. Figures 4 5 are referred to as an Acarauna, an unidentified variety of surgeonfish, with a detail of a scale. Plate 283 from chapter 73 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c, by George Edwards, volume 2 (London, for the author, 1760). The plate is inscribed: 'Brasilian Fishes

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