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

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

Billy J Kramer

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

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.