Alkekengi Barbadense... mb-code 1620723 'Fagin's Political School'

'Fagin's Political School'

Dimion O'Neill

The east end of the Guildhall

With ruins of buildings in the background

and the long-legged Casowary from New South Wales'

Alkekengi Barbadense... mb-code 1620723 'Fagin's Political School'Botanical study of a specimen of physalis, inscribed: 'Alkekengi Barbadense, patulum, parvo flore, fructu amplo, mucrone productioni Act. Phil n. 399.' A specimen of this plant was noted in 'A catalogue of the fifty plants sent from Chelsea Garden, presented to the Royal Society 1726', by Isaac Rand, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society vol. 35 (1729), p. 293. Not signed. Original: watercolour on paper. ca. 1730