Alkekengi Barbadense... mb-code 1239067 The new General Post Office

The new General Post Office

The facade of the Royal Hospital

A car at a petrol station

This cartoon was prompted by the publication of Andrew Mearns' The Bitter Cry of Outcast London

The Queen (centre) seen here with Princess Margaret and members of the Swedish Royal family watching the action in the cross country stage of the 1956 Equestrian Olympic Games three day event at Jrvafelt Nature Reserve

Alkekengi Barbadense... mb-code 1239067 The new General Post OfficeBotanical study of a specimen of physalis, inscribed: 'Alkekengi Barbadense, patulum, parvo flore, fructu amplo, mucrone productioni Act. Phil n. 399.' A specimen of this plant was noted in 'A catalogue of the fifty plants sent from Chelsea Garden, presented to the Royal Society 1726', by Isaac Rand, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society vol. 35 (1729), p. 293. Not signed. Original: watercolour on paper. ca. 1730