'Crested or Coped Black Vulture, and the Black and White Indian Snake' Richmond upon Thames Bill Foulkes

Bill Foulkes

will take that grin off his face

with boats and barges on the River Thames below

and the Black and white Indian Snake boath drawn from lie

but its properties provided some comfort for the very poor

'Crested or Coped Black Vulture, and the Black and White Indian Snake' Richmond upon Thames Bill FoulkesZoological study of a Cinerous vulture Aegypius monachus with a specimen of Asian snake. Plate 290 from chapter 80 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c, by George Edwards, volume 2 (London, for the author, 1760). The plate is inscribed: 'The crested or coped black Vulture, and the Black and white Indian Snake boath drawn from lie, by G. Edwards,' A second, mirrored inscription provides the date