'Le Coq Dodin' [Red-necked phalarope] mb-height 490 The woman on the left

The woman on the left is wearing a matching coat over her dress

Lady Hertford (the Regent's mistress) inspects the Venus de Medici

is beset on all sides by the dogs of war

'War: after the Battle'

the Liberal Party did win office

'Le Coq Dodin' [Red-necked phalarope] mb-height 490 The woman on the leftOrnithological study showing a side view of the Red necked phalarope (here described as Tringa hyperborea, modern taxonomy Phalaropus lobatus), shown standing on a small grassy hillock surrounded by water. Plate 20 from the book Icones rerum naturalium, ou figures enlumlinees d'histoire naturelle du Nord, by Peter Ascanius, volume 1 (Copenhagen, 1772). Inscribed upper left "Ic. Rer. Nat. Tab. XX." Peter Ascanius was elected a Fellow of the Royal