Grasshopper legs bedroom scene South Bank

South Bank

with ornamental surround containing scrolls

followed by Lord Salisbury

The mythical giants

The Russian Bear had weakened Turkey to the point where she was easy prey

Grasshopper legs bedroom scene South BankPlate 21 figures 7 9 from the paper 'Farther observations on the feet of animals whose progressive motion can be carried on against gravity', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 106 (1816), pp. 322 330. Three leg details from a specimen of British grasshopper (Acrydium biguttulum). Pencil inscription below: 'Small Common Grasshopper of the Garden' [?] and in ink 'magnified 2500 times'. Not signed. Royal Society stamp