Title page of 'Icthyographia' Size:XL: 90 x 60cm by Charles Blagden

by Charles Blagden

The Duke of Norfolk is raising a brimming glass

View of the Steelyard from the River Thames

in the aftermath of an air raid

View of Haberdashers' Hall as rebuilt in 1668 to the designs of Sir Christopher Wren

Title page of 'Icthyographia' Size:XL: 90 x 60cm by Charles BlagdenThe title page to Icthyographia (1685), a component of the larger Historia Piscium, shows one of Neptune's attendants blowing a large conch shell to trumpet the work's importance, and a ship bringing in the day's catch. Illustration from De historia piscium libri quatuor, by Francis Willughby and John Ray (Oxford, 1686). Original: engraving. 1686