The 'purple gross-beak' and the 'poison-wood' Size:L: 80 x 60cm Plate 1 figures 1-2 from

Plate 1 figures 1-2 from 'A letter

dressed in the clothes of the past

The charwoman pumps vigorously at the barrel of disinfectant under the watchful eye of Mr Punch

possibly pottery kilns

The 'purple gross-beak' and the 'poison-wood' Size:L: 80 x 60cm Plate 1 figures 1-2 from'Coccothraustes purpurea', the purple gross beak, and 'Toxicodendron folijs alatis fructu purpureo pyri formi sparso', the poison wood (Catesby's identifications; modern scientific names: Loxigilla violacea, the greater Antillean bullfinch; Metopium toxiferum, the Florida poisonwood). Plate 40 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