'Sedum montanum...' mb-code 2502683 Liverpool manager Bill Shankly celebrates

Liverpool manager Bill Shankly celebrates after his team's 3-0 win

A small fire burns in the foreground

By the Marquis de la Place

He was heir to the Barnato Diamond Mining Co

Mr H A Lenehan's observation of the halo and polar spot during the transit of Venus

'Sedum montanum...' mb-code 2502683 Liverpool manager Bill Shankly celebratesBotanical study, Sedum montanum [Sempervivum arachnoideum] in flower with foreground detail. Commonly called the mountain woolly houseleek or cobweb houseleek [described in Philip Millers, Gardeners' dictionary, 1735], the artist shows the fine inter leaf filaments producing the cobweb effect, from which the plant takes its name. Inscribed in ink: 'SEDUM montanum tomento sum C. B. P. Cobweb Houseleek.' Signed lower right; 'G. D. Ehret pinxit'.