The 'gold-winged wood-pecker' and the 'chesnut-oak' Size:Standard: 6 x 4in showing the town of Hastings

showing the town of Hastings and a stormy sea crashing against the coastline

Plate 14 from the paper 'Some farther account of the fossil remains of an animal

Soldiers leading the notorious criminal past St Sepulchre Church along Skinner Street on the way to the gallows at Tyburn

Head and shoulders studio portrait

The 'gold-winged wood-pecker' and the 'chesnut-oak' Size:Standard: 6 x 4in showing the town of Hastings'Picus major alis aureis', the gold winged wood pecker, perched on a branch of 'Quercus castaneae foliis', the chesnut oak (Catesby's identifications; modern scientific names: Colaptes auratus, the northern flicker; Quercus michauxii, the swamp chestnut oak). Plate 18 from volume I of The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, by Mark Catesby (London, 1731). Mark Catesby was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1733.