Lot 208
SAMUEL DIXON
TWO IRISH BASSO RELIEVO PICTURES, 18TH CENTURY
Auction: 29 September 2004 at 12:00 BST
Description
Black-Bill'd Whistling Duck and Purple Waterhen with Corals and Shells, 1755 series, 29cm x 39.5cm, bearing wrong label for the Indian Bee-Eater dedicated to Lady Howth (see lot 207); and Summer Duck, Red-Bill'd Whistling Duck and Shells, 1755 series, bearing label dedicated to the Countess of Hillsborough
Dimensions
29cm x 40cm (2)
Footnote
(1) From George Edwards' Natural History of Uncommon Birds, vol. IV (1751), no. 193, and vol. II (1748), no. 87 respectively
(2) From George Edwards' Natural History of Uncommon Birds, vol. II (1748), no. 101 and vol. IV (1751), no. 194 respectively
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. 10 and 10a
Ada K Longfield, "Irish Conceits of Birds and Blooms - the embossed pictures of Samuel Dixon", Country Life, 5th December 1968, pp. 1457-60, fig. 3