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Mark Catesby

21 works

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Hand-colored engraving of a grey squirrel with a bushy tail beside orange flowers and a bulb with roots.

The Grey Fox Squirrel (Sciurus cinereus)

1731

Hand-colored engraving of a green lizard climbing a flowering branch with pink buds, yellow blossoms and brown seed pods.

The Green Lizard of Jamaica (Lacerta bullaris)

1731

Hand-colored engraving of a blue heron with long green legs standing on a sandy bank beside water and cattails.

The Blue Heron (Ardea coerulea)

1731

Hand-colored print of a dark purple bird with open beak standing on a rocky mound beside grass tufts.

The Purple Jack Daw (Gracula Quiscula)

1731

Hand-colored plate of a grey ground dove beneath a flowering branch with green leaves, white blossoms and berries.

The Ground Dove (Columba passerina)

1731

Hand-colored engraving of a brown pied-billed grebe on blue water, one lobed foot extended to the left.

The Pied-billed Dobchick (Colymbus podiceps)

1731

Hand-colored etching of a dark spotted moray eel curling beside yellow branching coral against a pale background.

The Black Muray (Muraenae helenae varietas)

1731

Hand-colored engraving of a remora fish with its suction disc beside a green plant with small red flowers.

The Sucking Fish (Echeneis Naucratis)

1731

Hand-colored engraving of a hermit crab with a spiral shell above a large mottled rock-crab with heavy claws.

The Red Mottled Rock-crab (Cancer grapsus)

1731

Hand-colored engraving of a loggerhead sea turtle swimming above rippled water, with a rock at lower right.

The Logger-head Turtle (Testudo Cavanna)

1731

Hand-colored print of a dark brown coach-whip snake knotted across the page above a green branch with a red flower.

The Coach-Whip Snake (Coluber flagellum)

1731

Hand-colored engraving of a red and white banded snake coiling around a plant with green leaves and a bulb.

The Corn Snake (Coluber fulvius?)

1731

Hand-colored engraving of a spiny iguana climbing a branch with green leaves and a large green fruit.

The Guana (Lacerta Iguana)

1731

Hand-colored engraving of a brown lizard on a green plant stem with yellow and white flowers and exposed roots.

The Lyon Lizard (Lacerta 6-lineata)

1731

Hand-colored print of a dark snake with a yellow belly beside a pink coneflower with green leaves, by Mark Catesby, 1731.

The Glass Snake (Anguis ventralis)

1731

Hand-colored print of a dark purple martin perched beside ivy vines with red berries and a thatched roof.

The Purple Martin (Hirundo purpurea)

1731

Hand-colored engraving of a white-headed eagle diving toward a fish, with a smaller flying eagle and an enlarged head outline

The Bald Eagle (Falco leucocephalus)

1731

Hand-colored engraving of a brown booby on a rock by the sea, with a sailing ship and a head study inset.

The Booby (Pelecanus Sula)

1731

Hand-colored print of a black skimmer bird with an open orange and black bill, standing on a sandy mound.

The Cutwater (Rhynchops nigra)

1731

Hand-colored engraving of a red-clawed crab beside a branching yellow coral on a cream background.

The Red Clawed Crab (Cancer erythropus)

1731

Hand-colored engraving of a green gar fish beneath a branch with yellow flowers, green leaves, and berries.

The Green Gar Fish (Esox osseus)

1731

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