Samuel Dixon

Lot 208: SAMUEL DIXON

Name: SAMUEL DIXON
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
SKU: 4p40occu4k

Est: $0 USD - $0 USDSold:

Lyon & TurnbullEdinburgh, United KingdomSeptember 29, 2004

Item Overview

Description

TWO IRISH BASSO RELIEVO PICTURES, 18TH CENTURY

Black-Bill'd Whistling Duck and Purple Waterhen with Corals and Shells, 1755 series, 29cm x 39.5cm, bearing wrong label for the Indian Bee-Eater dedicated to Lady Howth (see lot 207); and Summer Duck, Red-Bill'd Whistling Duck and Shells, 1755 series, bearing label dedicated to the Countess of Hillsborough
29cm x 40cm (2)

Artist or Maker

Samuel Dixon

Literature

Ada K Longfield, "Samuel Dixon's Embossed Pictures of Flowers and Birds", Quarterly Bulletin of the Irish Georgian Society, vol. XVIII, no. 4 (Oct 1975) fig. 10 and 10a Ada K Longfield, "Irish Conceits of Birds and Blooms - the embossed pictures of Samuel Dixon", Country Life, 5th December 1968, pp. 1457-60, fig. 3

Notes

(1) From George Edwards' Natural History of Uncommon Birds, vol. IV (1751), no. 193, and vol. II (1748), no. 87 respectively (2) From George Edwards' Natural History of Uncommon Birds, vol. II (1748), no. 101 and vol. IV (1751), no. 194 respectively

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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