Lot 206
SAMUEL DIXON
TWO IRISH BASSO RELIEVO PICTURES, 18TH CENTURY
Auction: 29 September 2004 at 12:00 BST
£882
Description
The Smallest Green and Red Indian Parakeet and the Little Black, White and Red Indian Creeper, 1750 series, number III; and another after Samuel Dixon The Black-Headed Indian Icterus, original frame
Dimensions
23cm x 18cm (2)
Footnote
(1) from George Edwards, Natural History of Uncommon Birds, vol II (1748), no. 81
(2) cf. George Edwards, Natural History of Uncommon Birds, vol II (1748), no. 77, seemingly a reverse image.
(2) The Indian Icterus formed part of Dixon's 1750 series and Spackman's 1754 set.