Wasp and locust 79 x 91.2 barges and ships on the

barges and ships on the water

View showing the distribution of premiums

Chiswell Street

View of the Tower of London from the south with boats on the River Thames

John Ross was knighted in 1834 following his return to England

Wasp and locust 79 x 91.2 barges and ships on theSide views of insects observed in Jamaica: the wasp 'Crinita' and what the author terms a locust, 'Rhombea cicada' [Phyllotettix rhombeus?]. Framed as if on individual sheets of paper and signed below 'A. Dupont pinxt. Felton VI'. Plate 6 for the paper 'An account of a singular species of wasp and locust', by Samuel Felton, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 54 (1764) pp. 53 56. Original: ink and watercolour on paper. 1763 1764