Collections : [Yale University -Yale Center for British Art]

The image shows a gray shark, without surrounding illustration. Forbes has drawn a scale below for size, and includes, above, the Latin name Carcharias (see genus Carcharias or possibly Carcharodon carcharias, the Great White Shark, mentioned in the letter). Bottom of page: a quotation from James Thomson's "The Seasons," beginning, "The Tyrant of the Deep! Behold! The rushing cuts the briny flood, to seize his prey."

Five copies.

Five copies.

Bottom of page: a quotation from Mark Akenside, beginning, "Not content with every food of life to nourish man."

The image shows two plants, one just emerging from the ground, the other with more developed fronds and trunk. Above the image, Fobres gives the Latin name as Cocos Nucifera - Lin: (see Cocos nucifera). Bottom of page: a quotation, in Latin, from Pliny's Natural History, reading "In oriente ex his vina, gentiumque aliquibis panis: plurimis vero etiam qudrupedum cibus." A translation is written below.

The image depicts a bloodsucker lizard on a branch with several leaves and fruits. Below the image, it reads: "The Bloodsucker, like the Chameleon, varies in color, especially in the bright hues of scarlet and orange near the throat. This is drawn on a branch of the Jamboo-Tree; a Fruit of the Plumb-kind; harsh and unpleasant." No Latin names are given.

The drawing is a detail of a tree branch, with leaves, flowers, and fruit, and without background illustration. The Latin name is given as Uvaria altissima (see Polyalthia longifolia).

The image shows a branch with numerous small chilis growing off the stems, primarily orange and yellow. The Latin name is given as Capsicum minus fructu parvo pyramidasi erecto.