Victoria Embankment, showing Temple Gardens and St Paul's Cathedral, London Size:M: 75 x 60cm Zoological studies of the Florida

Zoological studies of the Florida softshell turtle Apalone ferox

(a play on words as gunpowder is also a kind of tea

View of the Tower of London from the River Thames at Custom House showing boats and passengers on the river

In the foreground a woman plays a piano while in the background a man sits writing in a window

Victoria Embankment, showing Temple Gardens and St Paul's Cathedral, London Size:M: 75 x 60cm Zoological studies of the FloridaVictoria Embankment, showing Temple Gardens and St Paul's Cathedral, London, 1887. The Victoria Embankment is part of the Thames Embankment, designed by Sir Joseph Bazalgette in the 1860s to accommodate a modern sewer system as well as providing a thoroughfare along the river and relieving traffic congestion on Fleet Street and the Strand.