The 'fieldfare of Carolina' and the snake-root of Virginia Product:Canvas 'Vulcan's Best Customer'

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1821 (1824)

Plate VI of Cries of London

Hungerford Market

The 'fieldfare of Carolina' and the snake-root of Virginia Product:Canvas 'Vulcan's Best Customer'A deceased 'Turdus pilaris', the fieldfare of Carolina, laid on a stump of 'Aristolochia pistolochia seu serpentaria virginiana cale nodoso', the snake root of Virginia (Catesby's identifications; modern scientific names: Turdus migratorius, the American robin; Aristolochia serpentaria, the Virginia snakeroot or Virginia dutchmanspipe). Plate 29 from volume I of The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, by Mark Catesby (London,