Collection online

print

• Object type

  • print

• Museum number

  1917,1208.1069

• Description

  A peacock on a tree branch in profile to left, pheasants on the ground with two rabbits, another bird on the pedestal of a classical statue of a man with his back to the viewer on the left and three figures on a spit of land extending into a pool with a classical fountain behind, with the roof of a classical building among trees on the left and a large house in the distance ; plate 4 of a set of twelve. 1726
  Hand-coloured etching

  More 

• Producer name

  • Print made by: Pieter Casteels III

• School/style

  • British

• Date

  • 1726

• Production place

  • Published in: London
  • (Europe,British Isles,England,London)

• Materials

  • paper

• Technique

  • hand-coloured
  • etching

• Dimensions

  • Height: 300 millimetres
  • Width: 374 millimetres

• Inscriptions

  • • Inscription Content

      Lettered below the image 'Pr. Cassteels Pinxt. et Fecit. / 4.'.

• Curator's comments

  One of a full set: 1917,1208.1066-1077. According to Vertue, the set of birds was 'the first work in that kind of his doing, (except some two or three other little plates as tryals)'.

• Location

  Not on display (British XVIIIc Unmounted Roy)

• Subjects

  • bird

• Acquisition name

  • Donated by: Nan Ino Cooper, Baroness Lucas of Crudwell and Lady Dingwall
  • In Memory of: Auberon Thomas Herbert, 9th Baron Lucas of Crudwell and 5th Lord Dingwall

• Acquisition date

  1917

• Department

  Prints & Drawings

• Registration number

  1917,1208.1069