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'The Red-Tape Tangle'

Sheriff in his state carriage during the Lord Mayor's Procession

In the foreground there are boats moored on the south bank with the River Thames at low tide

James Orchard Halliwell [the additional name Phillipps was taken in 1872] was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1839

Flying fish with freshwater nests and cases Size:S: 40 x 30cm 'The Red-Tape Tangle'Zoological studies of three types of marine and freshwater specimens. Figure 1 a flying fish 'from the Royal Society'. Figure 2 nest of the 'Tickleback' eg stickleback, probably the freshwater fish Gasterosteus aculeatus aculeatus, the three spined stickleback. Figure 3 four specimens of caddisfly cases. Plate 8 from the book A philosophical account of the works of nature, by Richard Bradley (London, 1721). Inscribed 'Plate VIII. T. Cole sculp.'

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