Samuel Dixon

Lot 203: SAMUEL DIXON

Name: SAMUEL DIXON
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
SKU: 06r6c9j9g2

Est: $0 USD - $0 USDSold:

Lyon & TurnbullEdinburgh, United KingdomSeptember 29, 2004

Item Overview

Description

TWO IRISH BASSO RELIEVO PICTURES, 18TH CENTURY

The Brown Indian Dove, 1750 series, number V, inscribed on the back of the frame "Brown Dove", 23cm x 17.5cm; and The Lesser Mock-Bird and the Black and Yellow Manakin, 1750 series, number VIII, inscribed "Mock Bird" and incised date 1808 (?)
23cm x 17cm (2)

Artist or Maker

Samuel Dixon

Literature

Ada K Longfield, "Samuel Dixon's Embossed Pictures", Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries in Ireland, vol. 96, part 2 (1966), pl 24a

Notes

From George Edwards' Natural History of Uncommon Birds, vol. II (1748), (1) no. 76, (2) nos. 78 and 83, the latter wrongly coloured

Auction Details

Fine Antiques

Lyon & Turnbull

September 29, 2004, 12:00 AM EST

33 Broughton Place, Edinburgh, EBH, EH1 3RR, UK

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