The 'red leg'd thrush' and the 'gum-elimy tree' mb-width 4027 Tom Jones and Engelbert Humperdinck

Tom Jones and Engelbert Humperdinck

View of Billingsgate wharf with Three Tuns Public House

one holds an axe

Both of the women are wearing muslin dresses

With a description beneath and the title on a ribbon in the sky

The 'red leg'd thrush' and the 'gum-elimy tree' mb-width 4027 Tom Jones and Engelbert Humperdinck'Turdus viscivorus plumbeus', the red leg'd thrush, and 'Teribinthus major betulae cortice', the gum elimy tree (Catesby's identifications; modern scientific names: Turdus plumbeus, the red legged thrush; Bursera simaruba, the gumbo limbo). Plate 30 from volume I of The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, by Mark Catesby (London, 1731). Mark Catesby was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1733. Original: etching. 1731