The little owl Sargeant Richard Shaw

Richard Shaw

View of Daniel Defoe in the pillory at Temple Bar

View of Lothbury Court

with paintings lining the walls from floor to ceiling and a large crowd of fashionably dressed figures viewing the works and conversing amongst themselves

1794 showing the North End

The little owl Sargeant Richard ShawBird identified by Catesby as 'Noctua aurita minor', the little owl (modern scientific name: Megascops asio, the eastern screech owl). Plate 7 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