Lot 209: SAMUEL DIXON

FOUR IRISH BASSO RELIEVO PICTURES, 18TH CENTURY

Goldfinch, with Orange Field Butterfly, Ranunculas, Woodbine, Blue Larkheel, Lily of the Valley, Auricula and Scarlet Sweet-Scented Pea, 1755 series, bearing label dedicated to the Duchess of Dorset and trade label "Bought of Samuel Dixon at his/ Picture Ware Room Caple Street DUBLIN", original frame, 28cm x 39cm; Cock Butcher-Bird, Ranunculas, Double Purple Poppy, Yellow Auricula, Rose and Buds, Lark-Heel, 1755 series, bearing label dedicated to the Duchess of Hamilton, 28cm x 39cm; Yellow Macaw with a Sparrow of Paradise and an Indian Redstart, 1755 series, bearing label dedicated to Lady Castlecomer, original frame, 28cm x 38.5cm; and Chaffinch, Province Rose, Common Rose, Scarlet Variegated Anenomy, Burrice, Yellow Crocus, Purple Blue Lark-Heel, Convolvulus Minor and Snowdrop, 1755 series, bearing label dedicated to the Countess of Meath, original frame
28cm x 39cm (4)

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. 12 Ada K Longfield, "Samuel Dixon's Embossed Pictures", Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries in Ireland, vol. 96, part 2 (1966), pp. 133-140, pl. 25