'Le Vaneau, gris de fer' [Curlew sandpiper] Crown and Anchor Tavern circa 1935

circa 1935

'St John the Baptist preaching'

Brown was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1889

looking west up the River Thames with the Globe Theatre and the Bear Garden in the centre

Lord Mayor 1824

'Le Vaneau, gris de fer' [Curlew sandpiper] Crown and Anchor Tavern circa 1935Ornithological study showing a side view of the Curlew sandpiper (here described as Tringa ferruginea, modern taxonomy Calidris ferruginea), shown standing on a small grassy rock surrounded by water. Plate 9 from the book Icones rerum naturalium, ou figures enlumlinees d'histoire naturelle du Nord, by Peter Ascanius, volume 1 (Copenhagen, 1772). Inscribed upper right 'Ic. Rer. Nat. Tab. IX.' Peter Ascanius was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in