Here’s an old picture of some historic significance. What is it and what’s the significance? Send your name, hometown and guess to: feedback@statehousereport.com.
Last week’s mystery, “Quackers,” showed a hand-colored copper engraving of a male, white-faced and blue-winged teal dabbling duck by Mark Catesby, an English naturalist who published a seminal work on plant and animal life in 1731.
“Its importance stems from the fact that this image was included in one of the world’s most famous color-plate books about American plant and animal life,” wrote Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas.
Others who identified the etching were George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Penny Forrester of Tallahassee, Fla.; Jean Prothro, Elizabeth Jones and Jay Altman, all of Columbia; Pat Keadle of Perry; and Daniel Prohaska of Summerville.
- Send us a mystery picture. If you have a photo that you believe will stump readers, send it along (but make sure to tell us what it is because it may stump us too!) Send to: feedback@statehousereport.com and mark it as a photo submission. Thanks.
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