The 'purple gross-beak' and the 'poison-wood' Size:L: 80 x 60cm View of a harbour with

View of a harbour with eighteenth century ships at anchor

Plate 1 figures 1-2 from 'A letter

A VIEW from the BALLOON at its GREATEST elevation see Page IIII

in Epping Forest

The 'purple gross-beak' and the 'poison-wood' Size:L: 80 x 60cm View of a harbour with'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