'Figure d'un Elephant de Mer' mb-code 2489648 Blackpool Tower with people sitting

Blackpool Tower with people sitting on Blackpool Beach LAFjan05 January 1st Building of the famous Blackpool Tower in England is completed 1894

shown in a black coat worn over a yellow waistcoat

The sitter is shown in a wig

Peter Osgood (Chelsea)

barn originally built to hold tithes paid in kind and common in England

'Figure d'un Elephant de Mer' mb-code 2489648 Blackpool Tower with people sittingFigure of a walrus, viewed from the side. Illustration from Discours d'Ambroise Pare a scavoir, de la mumie, de la licorne, des venins, et de la peste, avec une table des plus notables matieres contenues esdit discours (chez Gabriel Buon, Paris, 1582), f. 28. Ambroise Par (c. 1510 1590) was a French barber surgeon and anatomist who served several Kings of France. Original: woodcut engraving. 1582