'The Yellow-breasted Toucan' Product:Canvas 9 December 1874

9 December 1874

is on the left

by Mark Catesby (London

just back from a tour of America

Inscribed: 'Caroline Herschel From an oil painting by Tielemann 1829

'The Yellow-breasted Toucan' Product:Canvas 9 December 1874Ornithological study of a Central American Keel billed Toucan Ramphastos sulfuratus, shown perched on a low branch. There is a scale to the right of the bird as viewed. Plate 329 from chapter 119 of Gleanings of natural history, exhibiting figures of quadrupeds, birds, insects, plants, &c, by George Edwards, volume 3 (London, for the author, 1764). The plate is inscribed: 'The yellow breasted Toucan drawn in its natural colours from the living Bird in