'Rhea americana [gizzard]' Size:L: 80 x 60cm Jane Avril

Jane Avril

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This cartoon shows Britain holding a teapot in the shape of a large gun and pointing it straight at the alarmed Chinese

The illustrations correspond to figures 1-2 and 5-6 [although here in a different order] on plate 10 and 11 of the published paper 'Account of several phaenomena observed during the Ingress of Venus into the solar disc' by William Hirst

'Rhea americana [gizzard]' Size:L: 80 x 60cm Jane AvrilPlate 15, 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. Internal view of the cardiac cavity and gizzard of the Rhea, quarter scale. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details and upper right 'Rhea