'White-shouldered banana oriole' [Oriole blackbird] Finish:Single View of a London General

View of a London General Omnibus

'Missing the Point'

while in the background to the left a drawing and quartering is being undertaken

3" and in ink above "Tab XIV"

Original is oil on panel 66x74

'White-shouldered banana oriole' [Oriole blackbird] Finish:Single View of a London GeneralOrnithological study of the Oriole blackbird Gymnomystax mexicanus, native to South America. Side view, posed on a tree branch. Plate 2 from The zoological miscellany; being a description of new, or interesting animals, by William Elford Leach, volume 1 (London, 1815). The plate is inscribed: 'Drawn Engraved & Published by R. P. Nodder January 1814.' William Elford Leach (1790 1836) British naturalist was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1816.