Lot 202
SAMUEL DIXON
TWO IRISH BASSO RELIEVO PICTURES, 18TH CENTURY
Auction: 29 September 2004 at 12:00 BST
Description
The Pea Hen Pheasant from China, 1750 series, number IV, inscribed on back of frame "Painted Pheasant/ Pea Hen Pheasant", 23cm x 17.5cm; The Black and White Chinese Cock Pheasant and Its Hen, 1750 series, number VII, inscribed on the back of frame "Cock Pheasant and Hen Pheasant/ Cock and hen Pheasant"
Dimensions
23cm x 17.5cm (2)
Footnote
From George Edwards' Natural History of Uncommon Birds, vol. II (1748), nos. 69, 66
Literature: 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. 7
Ada K Longfield, "More about Samuel Dixon and his Imitators", Quarterly Bulletin of the Irish Georgian Society, vol. XXIII, no. 1 (Jan 1980) fig. 6