Three specimens of marine life Size:L: 80 x 60cm D Martin Bird

D Martin Bird

15th January 1971

with two figures in the churchyard

View of Billingsgate Market with people and fish on the quayside

Three specimens of marine life Size:L: 80 x 60cm D Martin BirdMarine zoological studies of three specimens. Figures 1 2 [centre] upper and lower views of a starfish, 'most common upon our English coast'. Figure 3 [below] sea horse from Italy, 'taken from the Royal Society'. Figure 4 [top] view of a sea turtle, possibly the Hawksbill turtle Eretmochelys imbricate, 'the first of the finny Race; drawn from Mr. Salter's Collection at the Coffee House at Chelsea.' Plate 4 from the book A philosophical account of the