Lot 214
ISAAC SPACKMAN
TWO BASSO RELIEVO PICTURES, 18TH CENTURY
Auction: 29 September 2004 at 12:00 BST
Description
The Red and Blue Headed Parakeet, 1764 set?; and American Blue and Yellow Macaw, 1764 set
Dimensions
both 26cm x 18.5cm (2)
Footnote
From George Edwards' Natural History of Uncommon Birds, vol. IV (1752), nos. 176 and 159 respectively
(1) the colouring is exactly the same as 'West Indian long-tailed parakeet with apple (sic.) from Spackman's 1764 set.
cf. A K Longfield: "To Paint a Mockingbird" Country Life, 25th January 1979, pp196-7, fig 4.
(2) cf. Dixon's yellow macaw from the 1755 series (the example in this collection coloured red rather than yellow).
(2) Comparative literature: Ada K Longfield, "More About Samuel Dixon and his Imitators" Quarterly Bulletin of the Irish Georgian Society, vol XXIII, no. 1 (Jan 1980), fig. 22, with the Indian Icterus. Said to form part of the so-called third Spackman set (circa 1764-1771).