PIERRE CHARLES CANOT (1710-1777), after THOMAS HOWDELL A South East View of the City of New York in North America. 1768 Asia_23 and hence it got its

and hence it got its Latin name of cerasus

and with the dazzling red color of the monstrous peduncles which have the shape and size of medium pears or apples

with a colony of beavers at work in the foreground

John Gould (1804-1881) Nyroca ferina [Pochard]

working closely with many of the leading geographers of his day

PIERRE CHARLES CANOT (1710-1777), after THOMAS HOWDELL A South East View of the City of New York in North America. 1768 Asia_23 and hence it got itsPIERRE CHARLES CANOT (1710 1777),after THOMAS HOWDELL A South East View of the City of New York in North America Mezzotint with exceptional original color London: John Bowles, 1768 13 1 2 x 19 7 8 sheet Thomas Pownall, a British statesman who arrived to America in 1753 and took positions in colonial government (Governor of Massachusetts,1757; Governor of South Carolina, 1760), organized leading print dealers in London to publish a series of plates