'Siphonophorae' mb-code 1150591 'The mare's lamentation

'The mare's lamentation

seen from the Foreign Office courtyard

the slave is depicted as the real Othello quoting an approximation of a couplet from Shakespeare's play

Plate 8 from Museum Leverianum containing select specimens from the museum of the late Sir Ashton Lever

he served as its President from 1680 to 1682

'Siphonophorae' mb-code 1150591 'The mare's lamentationTwelve figures of Siphonophores. Figures 1 4 Porpema medusa. Figure 5 Porpalia prunella. Figures 6 7 Discalia medusina. Figures 8 12 Disconalia gastroblasta. Plate 17 from the book Kunstformen der natur by Ernst Haeckel (Leipzig, Wien, Bibliographische Institut, 1899 1904). Original: lithograph . 1899