'Monstrous puppy' Chechnya possibly for removing old bills

possibly for removing old bills or posters from walls

MP for Birmingham

This relates to the recently signed Treaty of San Stefano which confirmed the terms of peace between Turkey and Russia

St Dunstan

and the Common

'Monstrous puppy' Chechnya possibly for removing old billsTwo studies, above and below, of conjoined puppies showing a single head but two sets of back legs and tails. Inscribed: 'A monsterous pupe shewne to y. Society May [169 erased] 1700'. Not signed. Numbered verso, '20'. Details of the dog are given in the Royal Society's Journal Book [JBO 10] at a meeting of 29 May 1700: 'A person shew'd a monstrous puppy; it had one head, a large tongue, 2 hinder bodys, 7 legs it was hurt in y. coming into y. world,