'Crested or Coped Black Vulture, and the Black and White Indian Snake' Richmond upon Thames and a tool

and a tool

and the Black and white Indian Snake boath drawn from lie

bearing rolls of cloth

Bill Foulkes

Above is King George III's coat of arms prior to 1816

'Crested or Coped Black Vulture, and the Black and White Indian Snake' Richmond upon Thames and a toolZoological study of a Cinerous vulture Aegypius monachus with a specimen of Asian snake. Plate 290 from chapter 80 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: 'The crested or coped black Vulture, and the Black and white Indian Snake boath drawn from lie, by G. Edwards,' A second, mirrored inscription provides the date