'Leaf cutter ants and spider' Chamberlain's Wharf is in full ceremonial costume

is in full ceremonial costume and also bearing a crimson bag containing medals for the coronation of King George IV

Plate 329 from chapter 119 of Gleanings of natural history

Plate 53 from volume I of The natural history of Carolina

showing Church Street in the foreground

Robert Vaughn

'Leaf cutter ants and spider' Chamberlain's Wharf is in full ceremonial costumeStudy of leaf cutter ants, a tarantula spider and other South American insects. Detail from plate 18 of the book Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium, in qua Erucae ac Vermes Surinamenses, cum omnibus suis transformationibus by Maria Sibylla Merian (Amsterdam, 1705). The entomologist and artist Maria Sibylla Merian travelled to Surinam in South America from 1699 1701, where she recorded and collected butterflies and other natural history specimens.