'Portative organ and kettledrums Size:S: 30 x 25cm Just at the time that

Just at the time that women were fighting to make careers in medicine

Behind them lurk the shrouded and menacing figures of Smallpox and Fever

has very much the appearance of the martin cat

showing an ugly woman holding a spy glass which touches the circumference of a large circle representing a magnified drop of water filled with grotesque aquatic creatures

Flower also demonstrated his invention at the Spalding Gentlemen's Society in 1739

'Portative organ and kettledrums Size:S: 30 x 25cm Just at the time that'Portative organ and kettledrums, c1474 (1956). Detail from 'Assumption of the Virgin' by Matteo di Giovanni. A print from Things, a volume about the origin and early history of many things, common and less common, essential and inessential, by Readers Union, the Grosvenor Press, London, 1956.