'The American Water-Rail' [Virginia rail] mb-code 00778216 1729 Andrw

1729 Andrw

a key in a cartouche and the City of London arms at the top

Water Lilies

and the sun shines down above the abbey

'The American Water-Rail' [Virginia rail] mb-code 00778216 1729 AndrwOrnithological study of the Virginia rail Rallus limicola from North America, posed on a bank by the waterside. Plate 279 from chapter 69 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c, by George Edwards, volume 2 (London, for the author, 1760). The plate is inscribed: 'The American Water Rail, Etched from Nature of the bigness of life. George Edwards Delin. et Sculp: AD 1757.' Original: etching. 1757