Quite a Novelty
Anon
Genre: | Illustration, Drollery |
Relevant illustrations: | wdct. |
Illustrators: | J L, pseud. [John Leech] * |
Subjects: | Botany, Natural History, Scientific Practitioners |
Shows an 'Amiable Experimentalist' and his friends at a dinner table in a room on whose walls hang pictures of fungi. He provides his friends with a botanical description of the mushrooms they are eating and they look on in consternation. |
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