Mark Catesby

Watermark: VILLEDARY and HIS with cross, fragment. Watermark, beta radiograph. Villedary, HIS, cross. 122871wm_1961_6_6_WM_beta.jpg
One of fourteen drawings and one colored proof engraving removed from Mark Catesby's "The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands...", 2 vol., London, 1731-1743 (PML 45708-45709).
Henrietta Ryan of the Royal Colelction Trust at Windsor expressed doubt about the attribution to Catesby for this drawing and tentatively suggests that the author may be David Pennant, who had copied Catesby's work (departmental correspondence, 14 Augsut 1996).