Gallery›Wellcome Collection›Above, an insect, three gastropod molluscs, a guinea hen and a prickly ophidian; below, an ostracean, a tobacco plant, two insects, two orioles, and an ornithoryncus. Engraving by Heath.
Above, an insect, three gastropod molluscs, a guinea hen and a prickly ophidian; below, an ostracean, a tobacco plant, two insects, two orioles, and an ornithoryncus. Engraving by Heath.
Wellcome Collection

Above, an insect, three gastropod molluscs, a guinea hen and a prickly ophidian; below, an ostracean, a tobacco plant, two insects, two orioles, and an ornithoryncus. Engraving by Heath.

1806

CC0 — Public Domain
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Lettering: Natural history...nepa linearis...Heath sc.

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