Mytilaspis pomorum [Mussel scale] Size:S: 45 x 30cm A figure stands at table

A figure stands at table and writes on a piece of parchment with a brush

The horns of a cow which is being milked in the background appear over his head suggesting he is a cuckold

and renewed the terms of the Treaty of Nanking between Britain and China

The bridge was opened in 1894 to the Gothic designs of Sir John Wolfe Barry and Sir Horace Jones

Mytilaspis pomorum [Mussel scale] Size:S: 45 x 30cm A figure stands at tablePlate 24, 'Monograph of the Coccidae of the British Isles', by Robert Newstead (Ray Society, 1900 1902). Figures 1 11 Mytilaspis pomorum including views of the insect on the branch of an apple tree [subsequently replaced, these versions are annotated 'omit'], studies of male and female insects and puparium. Natural size and at x15, x20, x35 and x50 magnifications. Signed below 'R. Newstead ad nat del.', heavily cropped. The facing page is a corrected