HE was the man behind the most notorious plot in British history, yet many have never heard his name. Here is what we know about Robert Catesby, his part in the gunpowder plot and his relation to Game ...

In September 1725, stretched out on the deck of his sloop anchored near Andros Island in the Bahamas, the English naturalist Mark Catesby was gazing at the dark sky above. For three nights he had been ...

In 1605, a group of British Catholics, including Guy Fawkes and Robert Catesby, devised a plan to blow up the Houses of Parliament. They hoped to wipe out the anti-Catholic political establishment and ...

“Game of Thrones” star Kit Harington will play his ancestor Robert Catesby, the mastermind behind the failed Gunpowder Plot, in “Gunpowder,” an upcoming BBC miniseries. Catesby was the leader of the ...

When Mark Catesby finally left America in 1726, the English naturalist had spent four years documenting the wilds of the American Southeast and the Bahamas in groundbreaking fashion. As an artist, he ...

It is no secret that the 18th-century British natural history artist Mark Catesby occasionally copied the work of his predecessors. His sketch of a land crab bears a striking resemblance to a ...

As the super-cutting-edge "Act/React" exhibition slows to its close on Jan. 11, Milwaukee Art Museum has a number of other exhibitions on view. One that is perhaps the opposite of "Act" in some ways ...

During the decades Catesby labored to classify flora and fauna of the American South, he shipped thousands of seeds and pressed plants to England, some of which remain in university collections today.

Mark Catesby, “The Summer Duck” (1722-26), watercolor and bodycolor heightened with gum arabic, over traces of pencil (courtesy Royal Collection Trust, © Her ...

It is no secret that the 18th-century British natural history artist Mark Catesby occasionally copied the work of his predecessors. His sketch of a land crab bears a striking resemblance to a ...