Grasshopper legs bedroom scene The mythical giants

The mythical giants

Drawing of the state lottery taking place in Coopers' Hall

with ornamental surround containing scrolls

Cowley is now in the London borough of Hillingdon

'I tell you

Grasshopper legs bedroom scene The mythical giantsPlate 21 figures 7 9 from the paper 'Farther observations on the feet of animals whose progressive motion can be carried on against gravity', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 106 (1816), pp. 322 330. Three leg details from a specimen of British grasshopper (Acrydium biguttulum). Pencil inscription below: 'Small Common Grasshopper of the Garden' [?] and in ink 'magnified 2500 times'. Not signed. Royal Society stamp