Ocythoe cranchii [winged argonaut] Size:L: 80 x 60cm Queen Elizabeth II Visits Birmingham

Queen Elizabeth II Visits Birmingham

should come of age

is trying to catch his hat

Henry Grey Bennet was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1812

Illustrating the laceration of cineritious substance caused by concussion

Ocythoe cranchii [winged argonaut] Size:L: 80 x 60cm Queen Elizabeth II Visits BirminghamPlate 12 from the paper 'Observations on the genus Ocythoe of Rafinesque, with a description of a new species' by William Elford Leach, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 107 (1817), pp. 293 296. Six views of the cephalopod Argonauta hians, including details of arms and shell. The work is inscribed with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso. Original: watercolour on paper. 1817