'gizzard of the Soland goose...' blindness red chalk and watercolour on

red chalk and watercolour on paper

Lance Bombardier Ed Ferguson of Glasgow

onto the pitch for a league match at St James Park

Interior view of the Court of Wards and Liveries

He served as its Treasurer from 1666 to 1679

'gizzard of the Soland goose...' blindness red chalk and watercolour onPlate 11 from the paper 'On the different structures and situations of the solvent glands in the digestive organs of birds, according to the nature of their food and particular modes of life', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 102 (1812), pp. 394 404. Section of the gizzard of the Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus). The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details. Not signed. Royal Society stamp verso