'Corporis humani ossa, posteriori facie proposita' Product:Fine art poster Lower left in pencil "1831"

Lower left in pencil "1831" Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1831

Monument in old St Paul's Cathedral

the inn was the meeting place of the pilgrims in Chaucers 'Canterbury Tales'

Punch points up the devaluation of the religious tradition of pilgrimage which ought surely to carry with it a certain amount of renunciation and discomfort

'Corporis humani ossa, posteriori facie proposita' Product:Fine art poster Lower left in pencil "1831"The human skeleton as viewed from behind. Illustration from De humani corporis fabrica, by Andreas Vesalius (Basileae, 1555). Original: woodcut engraving. 1555