The 'gold-winged wood-pecker' and the 'chesnut-oak' Size:Standard: 6 x 4in Calcott had previously made bicycles

Calcott had previously made bicycles

31st December 1993

North London making preparations for King George V Silver Jubilee celebrations

Planned improvements to Hyde Park would mean that the statue would have to be moved

Observations at Mount Vesuvius near the Bay of Naples made by the artist on behalf of Sir William Hamilton

The 'gold-winged wood-pecker' and the 'chesnut-oak' Size:Standard: 6 x 4in Calcott had previously made bicycles'Picus major alis aureis', the gold winged wood pecker, perched on a branch of 'Quercus castaneae foliis', the chesnut oak (Catesby's identifications; modern scientific names: Colaptes auratus, the northern flicker; Quercus michauxii, the swamp chestnut oak). Plate 18 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 Society in 1733.