'Figure du combat du Rhinoceros contre l'Elephant' Product:Framed picture Peter Baker

Peter Baker

David Laing was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1843

laden with various bags and tools

'Sir Thomas Harrison

] to the west of the main village with the church of Avebury St James

'Figure du combat du Rhinoceros contre l'Elephant' Product:Framed picture Peter BakerFantastical scene of battle between a rhinoceros and an elephant in a wooded landscape. Three stages of the contest are shown in the foreground, middle and far distance. Elsewhere a human hunter armed with a bow is shown in a tree, hunting elephants. This print originally appeared in Andre Thevet's La cosmographie universalle (1575). Illustration from Discours d'Ambroise Pare a scavoir, de la mumie, de la licorne, des venins, et de la peste, avec une