Lot 212
ISAAC SPACKMAN
TWO BASSO RELIEVO PICTURES, 18TH CENTURY
Auction: 29 September 2004 at 12:00 BST
£1,880
Description
The Black and White Chinese Cock Pheasant and its Hen, 1764 set; and The Indian Redstart and Wax Bill, 1754 set
Dimensions
both 25cm x 19cm (2)
Footnote
(1) From George Edwards' Natural History of Uncommon Birds, vol. II (1748)
cf. Dixon's 1750 series, number VII
(2) The former from From George Edwards' Natural History of Uncommon Birds, vol. IV (1752), no. 190
Literature: Ada K Longfield, "More About Samuel Dixon and his Imitators" Quarterly Bulletin of the Irish Georgian Society, vol XXIII, no. 1 (Jan 1980), figures 15 and 11 respectively