Consider the watercolour below, painted by Henry Smeathman (1742-1786) and depicting a termite colony in Sierra Leone:. ... Explanation of the plates to Mr. SMEATHMAN’S Account of the Termites of Africa &c.’, Philosophical Transactions vol.

Henry Smeathman, having witnessed the Montgolfiers’ balloon demonstrations in France, was inspired to create his own arrangement with wings on either side, decorated with a lion, a unicorn and a Saint ... Smeathman’s design (AP/5/12/4). Public