'Le Coq Dodin' [Red-necked phalarope] Product:Framed picture Monument by Thomas Banks

Monument by Thomas Banks

Peace remarks Not much doing

At the beginning of March 1860

This is a satire on the struggle between William Pitt the Younger and Fox before the dissolution of Parliament

'Le Coq Dodin' [Red-necked phalarope] Product:Framed picture Monument by Thomas BanksOrnithological 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