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Mark Catesby - Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands , 1754. The plate is part of two folio volumes with 200 splendid watercolors, in which he portrayed and described the species observed during the his trip; Catesby is the author of both the texts and the illustrations, in which for the first time plants and animals are portrayed together, according to naturalistic criteria new for the time. The company cost him almost twenty years of work and totally exhausted his financial resources. In 1733, for scientific and artistic merits he became a member of the prestigious Royal Society. After his death the original watercolors, from which he had drawn the Natural History plates, were purchased by King George III and are now kept in Windsor Castle. size 21x15 cm
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decorative plate. Heron. Mark Catesby -year 1754
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