Fossilised Ichthyosaur vertebra Size:L: 75 x 60cm Three bishops rowing with the

Three bishops rowing with the tide

c1800-1850

The first relates to a trial taking place in France of a man involved in some assassination plot during the course of which it had been alleged that an English MP had been in some way involved in the plot - an allegation furiously rejected by the House

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Fossilised Ichthyosaur vertebra Size:L: 75 x 60cm Three bishops rowing with thePlate 14 from the paper 'Some farther account of the fossil remains of an animal, of which a description was given to the Society in 1814', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 106 (1816), pp. 318 321. The painting is annotated in pencil: 'Found at Lyme. The largest vertebra of this fish I have ever seen. This compared with the vertebra of Bullock's specimen shews the size which the animal occasionally attained.' The