'The Gerbua' [Greater Egyptian jerboa] field marshal with a three-wheeled version

with a three-wheeled version

View of the parish clerk's hall

London and Croydon Railway

shows north front from the Horticultural Society Gardens

'The Gerbua' [Greater Egyptian jerboa] field marshal with a three-wheeled versionZoological study of a Greater Egyptian jerboa (Jaculus orientalis). The desert rodent is shown against a landscape of pyramids and antiquities. Behind are two other jerboas, one in the act of jumping, the other eating an ear of grain. Plate 219 from chapter 9 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c, by George Edwards, volume 1 (London, for the author, 1758). The plate is variously inscribed,