'Nutmeg Trees' Size:L: 75 x 50cm Interior of the fashionable Rotunda

Interior of the fashionable Rotunda where the well-to-do came to see and be seen

25th May 1972

Campbell Swinton at the Royal Society's Soiree held on 6 May 1896

Dukes of Gloucester

'Nutmeg Trees' Size:L: 75 x 50cm Interior of the fashionable RotundaBotanical study of the nutmeg tree. Figures can be seen in the background walking amongst further nutmeg trees against a mountainous backdrop. Plate from the book An embassy from the East India Company of the United Provinces to the Grand Tartar Cham, Emperour of China., by John Nieuhoff (London, 1669). John Nieuhoff (1618 1672), Dutch traveller, was appointed steward of the mission to China under Peter van Goyer and Jacob van Keyser, ambassadors of