The 'summer red-bird' and the 'western plane tree' mb-artistname Captain HR Howard Scene showing figures in front

Scene showing figures in front of a windmill and a boat on the River Thames

boxing was a dangerous sport and

below centre

with a twenty-feet reflector

who are followed by a body of maidservants

The 'summer red-bird' and the 'western plane tree' mb-artistname Captain HR Howard Scene showing figures in front'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