'Chimerina cornuta' [Rhinoceros auklet] mb-height 5000 Britain had maintained a neutral

Britain had maintained a neutral stance

made by the artist on behalf of Sir William Hamilton

Bonner's Hall

The full title caption reads: 'Elevation of the South end or East Wing

Original is oil on panel 26

'Chimerina cornuta' [Rhinoceros auklet] mb-height 5000 Britain had maintained a neutralOrnithological study of the Rhinoceros Auklet (Cerorhinca monocerata) native to the Pacific coast of North America. Plate 12 from the book Zoologischer Atlas, enthaltend Abbildungen und Beschreibungen neuer Thierarten wahrend des Flottcapitains von Kotzebue zweiter Reise um die Welt, by Friedrich Eschscholtz (Berlin, 1829). Inscribed '4 5 Chimerina cornuta. E. Bomer del. M. Haas sc.' Johann Friedrich Eschscholtz (1793 1831) Livonian physician,