The 'white-crown'd pigeon' and the 'cocoa plum' Finish:Stretched - The Earl doing Battle

- The Earl doing Battle for his Lady'

The sitter appears on an Italian-style balcony with a landscape background of hills and woodland

Plate 290 from chapter 80 of Gleanings of natural history

Queen Victoria officially opened the bridge

The 'white-crown'd pigeon' and the 'cocoa plum' Finish:Stretched - The Earl doing Battle'Columba capite albo', the white crown'd pigeon, with the leaves and fruit of 'Frutex cotini fere folio crasso', the cocoa plum (Catesby's identifications; modern scientific names: Patagioenas leucocephala, the white crowned pigeon; Chrysobalanus icaco, the icaco coco plum or paradise plum). Plate 25 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