'The Chinese Quail and the Guernsey Lizard' mb-width 6492 rises behind a drystone wall

rises behind a drystone wall

Arch Bishop Boniface denouncing the anathema in Westminster Hall

Various pieces and suits of plate and mail armour

his slimmer companion

Original is oil on panel 41

'The Chinese Quail and the Guernsey Lizard' mb-width 6492 rises behind a drystone wallStudies of a quail, probably the King Quail or Button Quail Coturnix chinensis, with a lizard from Surrey, possibly the Sand Lizard Lacerta agilis. Shown in a natural setting, the quail perched standing upon a stone. Plate 247 from chapter 37 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c, by George Edwards, volume 1 (London, for the author, 1758). The plate is inscribed: 'A Chinese Quail, and the