Geologist in a chalk pit Size:XXL: 150 x 100cm He had been endeavouring to

He had been endeavouring to steer a course between the left-wing demands of Leon Gambetta and the right-wing demands for a restoration of the monarchy

whilst conditions were appalling

In the days when corporal punishment was a regular and painful feature of public school life

said to have been occupied by Anne Boleyn's father Sir Thomas Boleyn

the Monument and St Magnus the Martyr

Geologist in a chalk pit Size:XXL: 150 x 100cm He had been endeavouring toLandscape view, showing a 19th century gentleman field geologist in outdoor clothing, seated while writing or drawing in a notebook. Inscribed below: ' Lime Kiln, & Chalk Pit near Wells, Norfolk with oblique ascending veins of thin Flint. also horizontal layers of tabular flint. Drawn by G. J. Rose.' The drawing is signed, lower right 'G. J. Rose'. Not dated. From papers of the naturalist and geologist Caleb Burrell Rose (1790 1872). Original: pencil