Kuo Sung-Tao, first Chinese envoy to Great Britain wetness Actor Richard Briers seen here

Actor Richard Briers seen here at his West London home

John (1167-1216) became King of England in 1199

Full body study of a Banded krait ('Bungaris fasciatus') with two head studies and one banding detail to show scalation and patterning

Also showing two figures

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Kuo Sung-Tao, first Chinese envoy to Great Britain wetness Actor Richard Briers seen hereKuo Sung Tao, first Chinese envoy to Great Britain, 1880. In 1875 he was commissioned by the Chinese Government to be the first diplomat that China had sent to a foreign country, and established himself at the Court of St James's, London. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc. Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield,