Musée No: SET.159 - BOTANICALS & BIRDSSet of Six Botanicals & Birds with Pale Sage Border by the artist Mark Catesby. Mark Catesby was an English naturalist who studied flora and fauna in the New World. Between 1729 and 1747. He published his Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, the first published account of the flora and fauna of North America. It included 220 plates of birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects, mammals and plants.