The little owl Sargeant with paintings lining the walls

with paintings lining the walls from floor to ceiling and a large crowd of fashionably dressed figures viewing the works and conversing amongst themselves

View of Lothbury Court

1794 showing the North End

On 19th April 1861 Lincoln issued a Proclamation of Blockade against Southern ports

The little owl Sargeant with paintings lining the wallsBird identified by Catesby as 'Noctua aurita minor', the little owl (modern scientific name: Megascops asio, the eastern screech owl). Plate 7 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 Society in 1733. Original: etching. 1731