The 'summer red-bird' and the 'western plane tree' Finish:Single showing visitors looking at displays

showing visitors looking at displays

Bernard Gallacher

there were few alternatives to domestic service

reviewing volunteers on the Artillery Ground

View of the City of London from across the River Thames

The 'summer red-bird' and the 'western plane tree' Finish:Single showing visitors looking at displays'Muscicapa rubra', the summer red bird, and 'Platanus occidentalis', the western plane tree (Catesby's identifications; modern scientific names: Piranga rubra, the summer tanager; Platanus occidentalis, the American sycamore). Plate 56 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. Original: etching. 1731