Lot 205: SAMUEL DIXON

THREE IRISH BASSO RELIEVO PICTURES, 18TH CENTURY

The Black-Headed Indian Icterus, 1750 series, no. VI, bearing label to frame "Number VI/The Black-headed Indian ICTERUS/ This bird is so-call'd from its likeness to another Bird....", 23cm x 17.5cm; The Black and White Chinese Cock Pheasant and Its Hen, 1750 series, number VII, original frame, traces of label, 23cm x 18cm; and The Quan or Guan, 1750 series, number XII, original frame, 23.5cm x 18cm; together with a similar watercolour by another hand; A Partridge, original frame
23cm x 17.5cm (4)

A K Longfield "To Paint a Mockingbird", Country Life, 25th January 1979, pp. 196-7, fig. 2 Ada K Longfield, "More about Samuel Dixon and his Imitators", Quarterly Bulletin of the Irish Georgian Society, vol. XXIII, no. 1 (Jan 1980) fig. 6 Ada K Longfield, "Irish Conceits of Birds and Blooms - the embossed pictures of Samuel Dixon", Country Life, 5th December 1968, pp. 1457-60, fig. 6