The 'red-bellied wood-pecker', the 'hairy wood-pecker' and the 'black oak' John Boydell Original is oil on canvas

Original is oil on canvas 71x58

by Joannis Aldini (Bologna

Wilberforce arranged conferences for his rural deans

for Thanksgiving service

The plate is inscribed: 'PLATE 19

The 'red-bellied wood-pecker', the 'hairy wood-pecker' and the 'black oak' John Boydell Original is oil on canvas'Picus ventre rubo', the red bellied wood pecker, and 'Picus medius quasi villosus', the hairy wood pecker, perched on the trunk of 'Quercus (forte) marilandica', the black oak (Catesby's identifications; modern scientific names: Melanerpes carolinus, the red bellied woodpecker; Picoides villosus, the hairy woodpecker; Quercus marilandica, the blackjack oak). Plate 19 from volume I of The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, by