Vintage greeting card THE LAUREL TREE OF CAROLINA VOL II, plate 61 Mark Catesby

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Vintage greeting card THE LAUREL TREE OF CAROLINA VOL II, plate 61 in The Natural Histoy of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands.
Designed and engraved by Mark Catesby (1683-1749) London, England , 1731-1743.
In 1712 and again in 1722 British naturalist Mark Catesby traveled to the New World to study and observe the flora and fauna. For four years, he painted the birds and flowers of Virginia and the Carolinas until his return to England whereupon he taught himself to etch. This image is a reproduction of the original etching by Catesby in Colonial Williamsburg’s collection. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation