'Dusky shrike' Product:Canvas the Railway Director sits astride

the Railway Director sits astride his Iron Horse and boasts to the ghost of Dick Turpin that the railways have a Royal Assent to their robbery

Original is oil on canvas 60

Arms of the twelve chief City Livery Companies surmounted by the arms of the City of London

Background details of drapery and a frame

View of the old Town Hall

'Dusky shrike' Product:Canvas the Railway Director sits astrideOrnithological study of a bird described by the author as Lanius obscurus, the dusky shrike. Side view, posed on a tree branch. Plate 21 from The zoological miscellany; being a description of new, or interesting animals, by William Elford Leach, volume 1 (London, 1815). The plate is inscribed: 'Drawn Engraved & Published by R. P. Nodder Tavistock Street. 1814.' William Elford Leach (1790 1836) British naturalist was elected a Fellow of the Royal