Lot 203
SAMUEL DIXON
TWO IRISH BASSO RELIEVO PICTURES, 18TH CENTURY
Auction: 29 September 2004 at 12:00 BST
£3,760
Description
The Brown Indian Dove, 1750 series, number V, inscribed on the back of the frame "Brown Dove", 23cm x 17.5cm; and The Lesser Mock-Bird and the Black and Yellow Manakin, 1750 series, number VIII, inscribed "Mock Bird" and incised date 1808 (?)
Dimensions
23cm x 17cm (2)
Footnote
From George Edwards' Natural History of Uncommon Birds, vol. II (1748), (1) no. 76, (2) nos. 78 and 83, the latter wrongly coloured
Literature: Ada K Longfield, "Samuel Dixon's Embossed Pictures", Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries in Ireland, vol. 96, part 2 (1966), pl 24a