The Rose-breasted Grosbeak Ioxia Rosea June 1845 Gordy Wilkes returned to New York

Wilkes returned to New York Harbor with only two of his six ships and a mountain of ethnographic

Le Tocan [Red Billed Toucan]

a book of watercolors on vellum of flowers inscribed with madrigals

During September 1880 he and Dick Sears entered a "Championship of the United States" at Staten Island

New Guinea is depicted as a large island to the east

The Rose-breasted Grosbeak Ioxia Rosea June 1845 Gordy Wilkes returned to New YorkWILLIAM POPE (British Canadian, 1811 1902) The Rose breasted Grosbeak Ioxia Rosea June 1845 Pen and ink and watercolor Paper size: 7 1 2 x 9 1 2 in. Provenance The artists family and thence by descent. Exhibited: Simcoe Ontario, Lynnwood Art Centre, Birds of a Feather, 3 31 May 1987 (a selection). Simcoe, Ontario, Eva Brook Donly Museum, May 7 June 1987 (a selection). Simcoe, Ontario, Lynnwood Art Centre, 4 August 3 September 1989 (a selection) Like