Armoured fish ['Placodermi'] mb-artist Sellers York Minster General Interior View

York Minster General Interior View

Mercedes on the banking near Members' Bridge

The full title caption reads: 'South West view of the East Wing and part of the Centre Range shewing the junction of the two Conductors that were nearest the Stable lean-to

26th July 1974

(which is in the background of the cartoon)

Armoured fish ['Placodermi'] mb-artist Sellers York Minster General Interior ViewSketches of two types of extinct armoured fossil fish from the class Placodermi, active from the Silurian to Devonian periods. Side views of one whole fish and one head study, as if in life. Found loosely inserted in Recherches sur les poisons fosssiles tome 1, by Louis Agassiz (Neuchatel, 1833 1843), pp. 36 37. Agassiz's work was the first significant survey of fossil ichthyology and these rough sketches were probably made by someone using the book