The 'gold-winged wood-pecker' and the 'chesnut-oak' Size:Standard: 6 x 4in Dick: A well known character

Dick: A well known character in the Westminster and Blackfriars Roads

An observation of volcanic activity at Mount Vesuvius near the Bay of Naples

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

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

Head and shoulders studio portrait

The 'gold-winged wood-pecker' and the 'chesnut-oak' Size:Standard: 6 x 4in Dick: A well known character'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.