Polish cochineal insects St George in the East FW Dixon with a HRD

FW Dixon with a HRD motorbike

3 litre Mercedes in action

'Whitechapel'

He is the first and thus far only person to hold both Water and Land Speed Records

There is a flotilla of boats on the sea beneath him

Polish cochineal insects St George in the East FW Dixon with a HRDFigures of insects and eggs observed in Poland, Polish cochineal [Porphyrophora polonica] or carmine scales. Inscribed in pencil with instructions to printers. Two sets of drawings mounted on a single backing sheet. Plate 10 from the paper 'Further account of the Polish cochineal', by Nathaniel Matthew Wolfe (1724 1784), Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 54 (1764) pp. 95 98. Original: pencil, red chalk and watercolour on paper. 1764