'The Elephant, and the Rhinoceros' mb-code 2490424 mace with spiked ball on

mace with spiked ball on a chain

In the previous year

Silvester was Recorder from 1803 until his death in 1822

as a boy with his mother and father George V and Queen Mary

'The Elephant, and the Rhinoceros' mb-code 2490424 mace with spiked ball onZoological studies of an elephant calf and a female Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis), the latter with a detail drawing of a rhinoceros penis. Plate 221 from chapter 11 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c, by George Edwards, volume 1 (London, for the author, 1758). The plate is inscribed: 'Drawn from a young ELEPHANT, in London. The Teeth [tusks] are added to compleat the Figure. The