Panyer-man blowing a silver mounted ox-horn, Middle Temple Hall, London mb-code U631472ACME centred on the South Sea

centred on the South Sea Company which had been founded in order to trade with Spanish America on the assumption that the War of the Spanish Succession would end soon with a favourable treaty allowing trading

the yellow-rump

Leeuwenhoek's observations of duckweed and the freshwater microorganisms ('animalcules') attached to it

a man in profile to our left

John Penn and Lord Kirkcudbright

Panyer-man blowing a silver mounted ox-horn, Middle Temple Hall, London mb-code U631472ACME centred on the South SeaPanyer man blowing a silver mounted ox horn, Middle Temple Hall, London, 1926 1927. The duty of the panyer man was to collect freshly baked bread and sound his horn to summon members of the Temple to dinner. Illustration from Wonderful London, edited by Arthur St John Adcock, Volume I, published by Amalgamated Press, (London, 1926 1927).