The 'gold-winged wood-pecker' and the 'chesnut-oak' Size:Standard: 6 x 4in Head and shoulders studio portrait

Head and shoulders studio portrait

Start of the inaugural Monaco Grand Prix

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

Billy J Kramer

The 'gold-winged wood-pecker' and the 'chesnut-oak' Size:Standard: 6 x 4in Head and shoulders studio portrait'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.