PIERRE CHARLES CANOT (1710-1777), after THOMAS HOWDELL A South East View of the City of New York in North America. 1768 Asia_23 In the meantime

In the meantime

John Gould (1804-1881) Nyroca ferina [Pochard]

with a colony of beavers at work in the foreground

and hence it got its Latin name of cerasus

working closely with many of the leading geographers of his day

PIERRE CHARLES CANOT (1710-1777), after THOMAS HOWDELL A South East View of the City of New York in North America. 1768 Asia_23 In the meantimePIERRE CHARLES CANOT (1710 1777),after THOMAS HOWDELL A South East View of the City of New York in North America Mezzotint with exceptional original color London: John Bowles, 1768 13 1 2 x 19 7 8 sheet Thomas Pownall, a British statesman who arrived to America in 1753 and took positions in colonial government (Governor of Massachusetts,1757; Governor of South Carolina, 1760), organized leading print dealers in London to publish a series of plates