'The purple jack-daw' mb-code RS-5 A well dressed woman attended

A well dressed woman attended by a black footman sees her husband emerging from a brothel

but the little girl on the right has been sent by her more feckless parents to fetch a bottle of beer with their money

Model of a twin-hulled ship designed by William Petty

Northampton Tabernacle

'The purple jack-daw' mb-code RS-5 A well dressed woman attendedBird identified by Catesby as 'Monedula purpurea', the purple jack daw (modern scientific name: Quiscalus quiscula stonei, the common grackle purple subspecies). Plate 12 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