'The Variegated Lizard' mb-height 5871 Plate 25 from Herbarium Blackwellianum

Plate 25 from Herbarium Blackwellianum

A portly man is taking an oath before the innkeeper while another man holds a pair of antlers over his head

'By this hand I swear that your property can easily dispense - but your person - oh

considered this mutiny - as did Punch

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'The Variegated Lizard' mb-height 5871 Plate 25 from Herbarium BlackwellianumZoological study of the Lace Monitor (Varanus varius) a lizard native to Australia, shown in a landscape that includes a water lily. Plate 38 from Journal of a voyage to New South Wales by John White (J. Debrett, London, 1790). The accompanying text states that: 'This Lizard approaches so extremely near to the Lacerta Monitor of Linnaeus, or Monitory Lizard, as to make it doubtful whether it be not in reality a variety of that species' The plate is