'Crested or Coped Black Vulture, and the Black and White Indian Snake' Richmond upon Thames View through the gateway of

View through the gateway of the Royal College of Physicians

will take that grin off his face

and Hawthorn on the far right

the couple of the left gallop over a pair of pigs and are chased by a dog

Bill Foulkes

'Crested or Coped Black Vulture, and the Black and White Indian Snake' Richmond upon Thames View through the gateway ofZoological study of a Cinerous vulture Aegypius monachus with a specimen of Asian snake. Plate 290 from chapter 80 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c, by George Edwards, volume 2 (London, for the author, 1760). The plate is inscribed: 'The crested or coped black Vulture, and the Black and white Indian Snake boath drawn from lie, by G. Edwards,' A second, mirrored inscription provides the date