Lot 207
SAMUEL DIXON
TWO IRISH BASSO RELIEVO PICTURES, 18TH CENTURY
Auction: 29 September 2004 at 12:00 BST
Description
Indian Bee-Eater, Black and White Indian Starling and Brazilian Finch, 1755 series (see label on lot 208), 29cm x 39.5cm; and Green Wing'd Dove, with Red-Throated Humming Birds, Peacock Butterfly and Ultramarine Butterfly, 1755 series, bearing label dedicated to Lady Molesworth
Dimensions
29cm x 40cm (2)
Footnote
(1) From George Edwards' Natural History of Uncommon Birds, vol. IV (1751), nos. 183, 187 and 191 respectively
(2) From George Edwards' Natural History of Uncommon Birds, vol. I (1743), nos. 14, 38 and 26 respectively
Literature: Ada K Longfield, "Irish Conceits of Birds and Blooms - the embossed pictures of Samuel Dixon", Country Life, 5th December 1968, pp. 1457-60, fig.4
Ada K Longfield, "Samuel Dixon's Embossed Pictures", Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries in Ireland, vol. 96, part 2 (1966), pp. 133-140, pl. 26