Lot 210

ISAAC SPACKMAN
TWO BASSO RELIEVO PICTURES, 18TH CENTURY

Auction: 29 September 2004 at 12:00 BST
£3,408
Description
The Fork Tail'd Indian Butcher-Bird, 1754 set, bears label "Fork tail'd butcher bird" and indistinct elaborate Rococo trade label, "Robert... Book & Printseller/ ... Cornhill", 25cm x 18cm; and The Pompadour
Dimensions
25cm x 18.5cm (2)
Footnote
(1) From George Edwards' Natural History of Uncommon Birds vol. II, (1748), no. 56
(2) From George Edwards' Gleanings of Natural History, vol. III (1764), no. 341 (the plate dated May 30th 1759)
