Mark Catesby
English naturalist, painter and etcher (1683-1749) · Artists · Died at 66
Mark Catesby was an English naturalist who studied the flora and fauna of the New World. Between 1729 and 1747, Catesby published his Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, the first published account of the flora and fauna of North America.
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Plate from Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands (1731-1743)
Mark Catesby's birthplace in Castle Hedingham, Essex
Title page, volume two, second edition of Catesby's The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, London, 1754
The ivory-billed woodpecker, which was later to be presumed extinct in North America. Here the bird is shown in association with the willow oak,Quercus phellos. Plate from Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands (1729-1747)Awards
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It included 220 plates of birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects, mammals and plants.
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Lived 1683 to 1749 · aged 66
