The 'blew jay' and the 'bay-leaved smilax' Size:XL: 100 x 70cm Procession of Queen Victoria to

Procession of Queen Victoria to open the Royal Exchange

with its mechanism visible

Interior view of the Foreign Nave in Crystal Palace during the Great Exhibition at Hyde Park

for having accompanied his vehicle throughout

Mike Maxfield

The 'blew jay' and the 'bay-leaved smilax' Size:XL: 100 x 70cm Procession of Queen Victoria to'Pica glandaria caerulea cristata', the blew jay crested jay, perched on a branch of the 'Smilax laevis lauri folio baccis nigris', the bay leaved smilax (Catesby's identifications; modern scientific names: Cyanocitta cristata, the blue jay; Smilax laurifolia, the laurel greenbriar). Plate 15 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