The 'red-headed wood-pecker' and the 'water oak' Finish:Single View of a house

View of a house

photographer to the Queen

Edward Duncombe

She holds a letter and wears a blue velvet empire line dress

naturally grey-white and collar-length

The 'red-headed wood-pecker' and the 'water oak' Finish:Single View of a house'Picus capite toto rubro', the red headed wood pecker, perched on the trunk of 'Quercus folio non serrato', the water oak (Catesby's identifications; modern scientific names: Melanerpes erythrocephalus, the red headed woodpecker; Quercus nigra, the water oak). Plate 20 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.