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Apsley House

is instructing First Lord of the Admiralty

Print depicting the undertakers eating

Original is oil on canvas 90x69

'Ceylon razor-shell' mb-code 1150590 Apsley HouseMarine zoiological study of the Ceylon razor shell Solen ceylonensis, found in the Red Sea and western Indian Ocean. Plate 7 from The zoological miscellany; being a description of new, or interesting animals, by William Elford Leach, volume 1 (London, 1815). The author describes the shell within the text: 'Inhabits Ceylon, where it seems not to be an uncommon species' The plate is inscribed: 'Drawn Engraved & Published by R. P. Nodder Feby. 1814.'

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