Nest of the Grey heron school a newly developing party forming

a newly developing party forming from Whigs and Peelites

A number of men and women dressed in the exaggerated fashions of the period

At the beginning of 1876

Ornithological study of the Parakeet auklet (Aethia psittacula)

in the sky a hot air balloon passes overhead

Nest of the Grey heron school a newly developing party formingStudy of a heron's nest, presumably the grey heron Ardea cinerea showing braches and twigs incorporated into its construction and containing a clutch of three eggs. Plate 44 from book Sammlung von Nestern und Eyern verschiedener Vogel by Adam Ludwig Wirsing and Friedrich Christian Gunther (A L Wirsing, Nuremburg, 1772). Inscribed: 'Tab. XLIV Pl. 44 du Heron. Reiger. A. L. Wirsing excudit Norimberg.' Original: copperplate engraving. 1772