'Le Maquereau' [Atlantic mackerel] Finish:Stretched Fishing on the Serpentine in

Fishing on the Serpentine in London's Hyde Park

Perspective view of the building used for a firework display in 1749 to commemorate the end of the War of the Austrian Succession

The paper was read before the Royal Society on 27 May 1736

edited by Adam Olearius (Schlesswig

View of the opening of London Bridge in 1831 with the royal procession in boats on the River Thames and a hot air balloon in the sky

'Le Maquereau' [Atlantic mackerel] Finish:Stretched Fishing on the Serpentine inMarine zoological study showing a side view of the Atlantic mackerel (Scomber scombrus). Plate 3 from the book Icones rerum naturalium, ou figures enlumlinees d'histoire naturelle du Nord, by Peter Ascanius, volume 1 (Copenhagen, 1772). Inscribed upper right 'Ic. Rer. Nat. Tab. III.' Peter Ascanius was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1755. Original: copperplate engraving. 1772