Lot 201
SAMUEL DIXON
TWO IRISH BASSO RELIEVO PICTURES, 18TH CENTURY
Auction: 29 September 2004 at 12:00 BST
£2,468
Description
The Painted Pheasant from China, 1750 series, number I, inscribed on the back of the frame "Painted Pheasant", 24cm x 18cm; and The Peacock Pheasant from China, 1750 series, number II, inscribed on the back of the frame "Peacock Pheasant"
Dimensions
23cm x 17.5cm (2)
Footnote
From George Edwards' Natural History of Uncommon Birds, vol. II (1748), nos. 68 and 67 respectively
Literature: Ada K Longfield, "More about Samuel Dixon and his Imitators", Quarterly Bulletin of the Irish Georgian Society, vol. XXIII, no. 1 (Jan 1980) fig. 4
Ada K Longfield "Samuel Dixon's Embossed Pictures of Flowers and Birds", Quarterly Bulletin of the Irish Georgian Society vol. XVIII, no. 4 (Oct 1975) fig. 6