Sir William Waller, English soldier Size:XL: 100 x 80cm Brahe's face is bordered by

Brahe's face is bordered by a white ruff collar and he is dressed in a dark coat with gold buttons

bringing it from 6d to 4d and Mr Gladstone gives the man of the household

usually referred to as a 'polyp' was the subject of a major series of researches by the Swiss naturalist Abraham Trembley (1710-1784) whose work is cited in the letter accompanying this illustration

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Sir William Waller, English soldier Size:XL: 100 x 80cm Brahe's face is bordered bySir William Waller, English soldier, 17th century, (1899). Portrait of Waller (c1597 1668). Illustration from Samuel Rawson Gardiner's Oliver Cromwell, (Goupil & Co, London, Paris, New York, 1899).