The 'tyrant' and the sassafras Size:M: 60 x 45cm 27th May 1965

27th May 1965

catching rats in a ramshackle room

als referirender Bergrath bei der k: k: Hofkammer im Munz und Bergwesen

' On either side of this

The General Post Office is in the distance

The 'tyrant' and the sassafras Size:M: 60 x 45cm 27th May 1965'Muscicapa corona rubra', the tyrant, and 'Cornus mas odorata, folio trifido margine plano', the sassafras (Catesby's identifications; modern scientific names: Tyrannus tyrannus, the eastern kingbird; Sassafras albidum, the sassafras). Plate 55 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. Original: etching. 1731