Lot 200
SAMUEL DIXON
FOUR IRISH BASSO RELIEVO PICTURES, 18TH CENTURY
Auction: 29 September 2004 at 12:00 BST
Description
Auriculas, Sweet Peas and Convulvulus, 18.5cm x 14cm; Auricula 'Dutch Triumph', Columbine and Anenome, 18cm x 14cm; Anenome, Gentian and Geranium, 18cm x 13.5cm; and Martagon Lily, Carnation and Tuberose, 18cm x 14cm, all 1748 series and in original frames
Dimensions
(4)
Footnote
The design of the latter three derived from Nicholas Robert's Variae ac Multiformes Florum Species Appressal (Paris, circa 1670)
(2) plate 16: an auricula has transposed a double renoncula in the original design. The anemone has been coloured blue, rather than purple.
(3) plate 12: the anemone (red) and gentian (purple) wrongly coloured.
(4) plate 44
Literature: Ada K Longfield, "Samuel Dixon's Embossed Pictures of Flowers and Birds", Quarterly Bulletin of the Irish Georgian Society, vol. XXIII, no. 4 (Oct 1975), figures 1, 3, 2
Ada K Longfield, "More about Samuel Dixon and his Imitators", Quarterly Bulletin of the Irish Georgian Society, vol. XVIII, no. 1 (Jan 1980)