'Figure du Poission nomme Caspilly' Finish:none East India House

East India House

Plate 7 from Fossilium Metalla Et Res Metallicas Concernentium Glebae Suis Coloribus Expressae by Casimir Christoph Schmiedel (Nuremberg

Pictures taken 19th September 1981

'A Young Humanitarian'

Plan of the shop fronts on Old and New Bond Street

'Figure du Poission nomme Caspilly' Finish:none East India HouseFigure of a Caspilly, a mythological sea beast, in a seascape that includes a whale and small boats. The animal is shown being hunted from boats and by archers from the sea shore. Illustration from Discours d'Ambroise Pare a scavoir, de la mumie, de la licorne, des venins, et de la peste, avec une table des plus notables matieres contenues esdit discours (chez Gabriel Buon, Paris, 1582), f. 29. Ambroise Par (c. 1510 1590) was a French barber surgeon