American ostrich [Rhea gizzard] old lady After The Luncheon

After The Luncheon

Earl of Warwick

and with a purse

'A Brass Pott or an Iron Pott to mend'

Abraham de Moivre was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1697

American ostrich [Rhea gizzard] old lady After The LuncheonPlate 14, from the paper 'On the different structures and situations of the solvent glands in the digestive organs of birds, according to the nature of their food and particular modes of life', by Everard Home, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 102 (1812), pp. 394 404. External view of the cardiac cavity and gizzard of the Rhea, quarter scale. The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details and upper left 'American