SAMUEL DIXON
FOUR IRISH BASSO RELIEVO PICTURES, 18TH CENTURY
£21,150
Auction: 29 September 2004 at 12:00 BST
Description
Goldfinch, with Orange Field Butterfly, Ranunculas, Woodbine, Blue Larkheel, Lily of the Valley, Auricula and Scarlet Sweet-Scented Pea, 1755 series, bearing label dedicated to the Duchess of Dorset and trade label "Bought of Samuel Dixon at his/ Picture Ware Room Caple Street DUBLIN", original frame, 28cm x 39cm; Cock Butcher-Bird, Ranunculas, Double Purple Poppy, Yellow Auricula, Rose and Buds, Lark-Heel, 1755 series, bearing label dedicated to the Duchess of Hamilton, 28cm x 39cm; Yellow Macaw with a Sparrow of Paradise and an Indian Redstart, 1755 series, bearing label dedicated to Lady Castlecomer, original frame, 28cm x 38.5cm; and Chaffinch, Province Rose, Common Rose, Scarlet Variegated Anenomy, Burrice, Yellow Crocus, Purple Blue Lark-Heel, Convolvulus Minor and Snowdrop, 1755 series, bearing label dedicated to the Countess of Meath, original frame
Dimensions
28cm x 39cm (4)
Footnote
(2) From George Edwards' Natural History of Uncommon Birds, vol. II (1748), no. 55
(3) From George Edwards' Natural History of Uncommon Birds, vol. IV (1751), nos. 159, 180, 190
(4) cf. Eleazer Albin, A Natural History of Birds, vol. I (1731), no. LXIII
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. 12
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. 25