The 'gold-winged wood-pecker' and the 'chesnut-oak' Size:Standard: 6 x 4in 'Young Woman in White'

'Young Woman in White'

The plate is inscribed: '1

Observations at Mount Vesuvius near the Bay of Naples made by the artist on behalf of Sir William Hamilton

Above and below the central device reads the inscription T Salmon

eating a landed fish within reeds

The 'gold-winged wood-pecker' and the 'chesnut-oak' Size:Standard: 6 x 4in 'Young Woman in White''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.