Study of five fish Finish:Float frame Figure 2 La Couleuvre porte-chain

Figure 2 La Couleuvre porte-chain (Coluber catenifer) the Gopher snake [modern taxonomy [Pituophis catenifer]

while behind him is a mounted figure

and was shot at the Tower

Artworks are pasted onto three separate backing sheets

Severndroog Castle

Study of five fish Finish:Float frame Figure 2 La Couleuvre porte-chainStudy of five fish. Inscribed: (1) 'Adonis sive Exocaetus cristatus Bellony'; (2) 'Clarias Bellony' [Mustela niloctica Memphis]; (3) 'Scorpaena Bellon' [Father Lasher Cornubiensibus]; (4) 'Mustela Marina'; (5) 'Mustelae fluviatilis' [Burbot or Birdbolt]. Illustration from De historia piscium libri quatuor, by Francis Willughby and John Ray (Oxford, 1686). Original: engraving. 1686