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Eels and feels

For Georgian Londoners, the allure of electric animals was both intellectual and sensual.

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Fantastic beasts and unnatural history

Find out how a 17th-century compendium of the natural world came to present fantastical beasts –like dragons – as real, living creatures.

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Medieval doodles

Fish, lute players and defaced demons: marginal doodles in some of Europe’s first printed books provide a tantalising glimpse into the late-medieval mind.

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The spectacle maker

Born into the eyewear business 80 years ago, Lawrence Jenkin still designs and makes glasses, while supporting and inspiring the generations of designers following him.

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  • Four heads of fishes. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • The history of British fishes / [Robert Hamilton].
  • Four heads of fishes. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Four heads of fishes. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Four heads of fishes. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Fifteen fishes, including a monk fish and peacock fish. Engraving by I. Taylor.
  • Interior of a Turkish temple with the shrine of the Spring of the Miraculous Fishes, Baloukli. Engraving by J. Tingle after T. Allom.
  • Eleven fishes, including shark, goat fish, grayling and sea eel. Engraving by I. Taylor.
  • Seventeen fishes; including a sturgeon, sword fish, narwhal and whale. Engraving by I. Taylor.
  • The apostles suddenly receive a miraculous shoal of fishes. Engraving after Raphael.
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