Grasshopper legs Finish:Stretched gloves and handkerchiefs

gloves and handkerchiefs

View over water at sunset

Through the murk can be seen London Bridge and the dome of St

late 15th century

Donaghadee harbour in Northern Ireland

Grasshopper legs Finish:Stretched gloves and handkerchiefsPlate 21 figures 7 9 from the paper 'Farther observations on the feet of animals whose progressive motion can be carried on against gravity', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 106 (1816), pp. 322 330. Three leg details from a specimen of British grasshopper (Acrydium biguttulum). Pencil inscription below: 'Small Common Grasshopper of the Garden' [?] and in ink 'magnified 2500 times'. Not signed. Royal Society stamp