Two specimens of fern leaf mb-width 1789 The work is inscribed above

The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details and with the scale '2 Inches to a Foot

This cartoon may be satirising the length of the average Chancery case during the mid-Victorian period

Panoramic view across Lake Rotorua

Nobby Stiles

Two specimens of fern leaf mb-width 1789 The work is inscribed aboveA photogenic drawing of two plant specimens, the leaves placed on sensitized paper and exposed to sunlight. Inscribed above in ink: 'An early attempt at Photography from Norwich.' Apparently, an early use of the process developed by William Henry Fox Talbot FRS (1800 1877). The naturalist and geologist Caleb Burrell Rose (1790 1872) in whose papers this image is preserved, practised as a surgeon in Swaffham, Norfolk, 1816 c. 1859.