'Yellow-legged ascalaphus' [Yellow owl-fly] mb-height 2940 looking towards the high table

looking towards the high table

The journal's point is well made by also depicting the Irish 'witch' recently sentenced to a term of imprisonment for utilising her skills to produce apparitions

The River Thames from Richmond Hill

who begs her to abandon her claim to the throne

Newington Butts and Newington Turnpike

'Yellow-legged ascalaphus' [Yellow owl-fly] mb-height 2940 looking towards the high tableEntomological study of the Yellow owl fly Suhpalacsa flavipes an insect native to Australia. Plate 20 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. 1814.' William Elford Leach (1790 1836) British naturalist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1816. Original: copperplate engraving. 1814