Portrait of George Manby (1765-1854) Size:S: 36 x 28cm flowers and leaves of Astragalus

flowers and leaves of Astragalus caulescens

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Frontispiece from the book The natural history of monkeys

Original is oil on canvas 79x91

Portrait of George Manby (1765-1854) Size:S: 36 x 28cm flowers and leaves of AstragalusManby is painted standing at three quarter length in military uniform (Manby was Captain in the Cambridgeshire militia) holding a highly decorated [prize?] sabre. Behind, a maritime scene of a vessel in stormy seas, in reference to Manby's invention of a life saving mortar for use in shipwrecks. George Manby was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1831. Original: oil on canvas, 1270x1016mm. ca. 1813