833933 The Cowthorpe Oak, 1840 (oil on canvas) by Rhodes, John Nicholas (1809-42); Leeds Museums and Galleries (Leeds Art Gallery) U.K.; (add.info.: Cowthorpe is the home of an enormous tree, the Cowthorpe Oak. Its circumference is 60 feet (18 m); its principal limb (which is propped) extends 48 feet (15 m) from the bole. According to an early history of Knaresborough, "The leading branch fell, by a storm, in the year 1718; which, being measured with accuracy, was found to contain five tons and two feet of wood. Before this accidental mutilation, its branches are said to have extended their shade over half an acre of ground; thus constituting, in a single tree, almost a wood itself"); Leeds Museums and Galleries, UK; British, out of copyright.