Cyrus West Field, American businessman and financier Size:M: 50 x 40cm Zoological study of the Red

Zoological study of the Red giant flying squirrel Petaurista petaurista

a corpse is put into a coffin in the background

Hypoxis hirsuta

The Prince Regent riding a horse

walk within the interior of the church

Cyrus West Field, American businessman and financier Size:M: 50 x 40cm Zoological study of the RedCyrus West Field, American businessman and financier, c1849 (1955). It was through Field's (1819 1892) suggestion and financial aid that the first Atlantic cable was laid. He later became a prominent promoter of New York's elevated railroad and owner of two newspapers. A print from Mathew Brady Historian with a Camera by James D Horan, Bonanza Books, New York, 1955.