The 'purple gross-beak' and the 'poison-wood' Size:L: 80 x 60cm Plate 1 figures 1-2 from

Plate 1 figures 1-2 from 'A letter

with a horse drawn vehicle and figures

Interior view of the House of Commons showing Members of Parliament from both sides of the house sitting on the benches and standing in the foreground

dressed in the clothes of the past

View of a harbour with eighteenth century ships at anchor

The 'purple gross-beak' and the 'poison-wood' Size:L: 80 x 60cm Plate 1 figures 1-2 from'Coccothraustes purpurea', the purple gross beak, and 'Toxicodendron folijs alatis fructu purpureo pyri formi sparso', the poison wood (Catesby's identifications; modern scientific names: Loxigilla violacea, the greater Antillean bullfinch; Metopium toxiferum, the Florida poisonwood). Plate 40 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