'Figure du Poission nomme Caspilly' Finish:Single circa 1953

circa 1953

Caracciola was the highly successful Mercedes team's top driver in the 1920s and 1930s

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View of a flour mill at Isleworth

'Figure du Poission nomme Caspilly' Finish:Single circa 1953Figure of a Caspilly, a mythological sea beast, in a seascape that includes a whale and small boats. The animal is shown being hunted from boats and by archers from the sea shore. Illustration from Discours d'Ambroise Pare a scavoir, de la mumie, de la licorne, des venins, et de la peste, avec une table des plus notables matieres contenues esdit discours (chez Gabriel Buon, Paris, 1582), f. 29. Ambroise Par (c. 1510 1590) was a French barber surgeon